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NEW YORK, Feb. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A region crossing the folded surface of the top of the brain, called the dorsal precentral gyrus, plays an ...

Human screams can convey at least six emotions A new study maps out the diversity of our shrieks and wails, raising questions about the evolution of this primal vocalization. ByMaya Wei-Haas Email Alone in a small, padded room, Sascha Frühholz took a deep breath and unleashed an ear-splitting scream. He was there, in part, because of The Beatles. Frühholz, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Oslo in Norway, couldnt get videos of the bands 1960s concerts out of his mind. As the mus...

3 hours ago Screams of joy appear to be easier for our brains to comprehend than screams of fear, a new study suggests. The results add a surprising new layer to  scientists’ long-held notion that our brains are wired to quickly recognize and respond to fearful screams as a survival mechanism ( SN: 7/16/15). The study looked at different scream types and how listeners perceive them. For example, the team asked participants to imagine “you are being attacked by an armed stranger in a dark a...