Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
People don’t need words to vocalize emotions. Wordless sounds will do just fine in many cases. Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, have catalogued these vocalizations that convey emotion.
To start things off, the researchers asked 56 people, some professional actors and some not, to react to different emotional scenarios.
From these reactions, the team recorded more than 2,000 vocal bursts. Next, they used Amazon Mechanical Turk, a website that enables you to outsource tasks you can’t relegate to computers, to recruit more than 1,000 people to listen to the recordings….
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