Auditory smiles trigger unconscious facial imitation

2018-11-142018-11-15 Pablo Arias

We are thrilled by the reaction of the press to our publication “Auditory smiles trigger unconscious facial imitation” a few months ago in Current Biology. Some interesting views on the findings, but also more general interviews with lead Author Pablo Arias, like this podcast hosted by Carl Robinson. Here is a quick press round up.

Research article:

Reference : Arias, P., Belin, P., & Aucouturier, J. J. (2018). Auditory smiles trigger unconscious facial imitation. Current Biology, 28(14), R782-R783. [html] [pdf]

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Philippe Schyns – Brain Networks, Information Flow and Computations

2018-05-312018-05-31 Pablo Arias

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Rachael Jack – Discovering Facial Expression Communication Across Cultures

2018-05-312018-05-31 Pablo Arias

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ICME4 – First day in the beautiful biotech Campus

2015-10-122015-11-06 Pablo Arias

Today was the first day of the ICME4 conference, a 5-day event organised by the University of Geneva and the Geneva University of music, and hosted at the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences in Geneva.

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Real-time emotional voices with D.A.V.I.D.

2015-09-212017-06-28 Pablo Arias

DAVID (Da Amazing Voice Inflection Device) is a real-time voice transformation tool able to “colour” any voice recording with additional emotion

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IRCAM Neutral-Content Voices

2015-09-212016-02-01 Pablo Arias

A corpus of multi-linguistic neutral-content sentences spoken in various prosodic tones (6 sentences, 4 languages, 3 male and 3 female speakers, 4 emotional tones), available under Creative Commons for research purpose.

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Cream – Audio geeks on a mission to the Amygdala.

2015-09-202018-04-05 Pablo Arias

We are a team of neuroscientists and audio engineers working in the basement of the computer music center IRCAM, in the middle of Paris. We develop computational models of vocal and musical communicative behaviors to gain new insights into their underlying affective and social- cognitive mechanisms and inspire new types of (technology-based) treatment for patients.