title: Social cognition: feeling voices to recognize emotions.
abstract: Our understanding of how we simulate other people's actions and feelings to recognize their emotional states is extended by a new study which finds that premotor and somatosensory cortices are required to process the emotional meaning of sounds.
authors.affiliation: Division of Humanities and Social Science and Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA. radolphs@caltech.edu
authors.forename: Ralph
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Adolphs
mesh_terms: D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D021641:Recognition, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*; D012919:Social Behavior; D014831:Voice