Posts Tagged ‘intonation’
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Previous studies suggest that people learn by imitating through “mirror neurons”. The new study shows that prosody—the music of speech—works on a similar mirror-like system. Lisa Aziz-Zadeh of USC says the higher a person scores on standard tests of empathy, the more activity they have in their prosody-producing areas of the brain. So increased empathic ability is linked to the ability to perceive prosody as well as activity in these motor regions.
USC (US)—People who can change intonation when they speak—like those who use upspeak to make a statement sound like a question—may have superior empathy, according to a new study. Continue…
