Marco Liuni

This study investigates how pitch contours and emotional timbre in speech affect P300 components in an own-name oddball paradigm, finding that rising pitch contours reduce P300 responses.

The paper investigates why metal music fans enjoy extreme music despite its similarity to threat signals, finding that their appreciation depends on higher-order cognition rather than different low-level threat responses.

CLEESE is an open-source audio-transformation toolbox that randomizes prosody/melody in speech and music recordings to study cognitive processing.