Music in speech equals empathy in heart?

Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 04:49 in Psychology & Sociology

Some people are annoyed by upspeak: the habit of making a sentence sound like a question? But actually, being able to change intonation in speech - as in upspeak - may be a sign of superior empathy? A new study in the journal PLoS ONE finds that people use the same brain regions to produce and understand intonation in speech...

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