Affective aspects of social transmission and communication
The most recent approaches developed in the lab deal with the impact of emotion on communication and social transmission. We use non-invasive neuroimaging methods such as functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy to study non-invasively aspect of emotional communication in non-human and human primates. We also develop theoretical paradigms that combine affect and cognition to explain the spread of cultural behaviour.
Main papers of interest
Gruber, T. & Grandjean, D. (2017) A comparative neurological approach to the decoding of vocal emotional expressions in primate vocalisations. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 73, 182-190. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.12.004
Sievers, C. & Gruber, T. (2020) Can nonhuman primate signals be arbitrarily meaningful like human words: An affective approach. Animal Behavior and Cognition, Special Issue Seyfarth, Cheney & Marler 1980, doi: 10.26451/abc.07.02.08.2020
Gruber, T. , Debracque, C., Ceravolo, L., Igloi, K., Marin Bosch, B., Frühholz, S. & Grandjean, D. (2020). Human discrimination and categorization of emotions in voices: a functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) study. Frontiers in Neurosciences. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2020.00570
