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Parsons CE, Young KS, Craske MG, et al. Introducing the Oxford Vocal (OxVoc) Sounds database: a validated set of non-acted affective sounds from human infants, adults, and domestic animals. Front Psychol. 2014;5:562doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00562.
Parsons, C. E., Young, K. S., Craske, M. G., Stein, A. L., & Kringelbach, M. L. (2014). Introducing the Oxford Vocal (OxVoc) Sounds database: a validated set of non-acted affective sounds from human infants, adults, and domestic animals. Frontiers in psychology, 5562. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00562
Parsons, Christine E, et al. "Introducing the Oxford Vocal (OxVoc) Sounds database: a validated set of non-acted affective sounds from human infants, adults, and domestic animals." Frontiers in psychology vol. 5 (2014): 562. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00562
Parsons CE, Young KS, Craske MG, Stein AL, Kringelbach ML. Introducing the Oxford Vocal (OxVoc) Sounds database: a validated set of non-acted affective sounds from human infants, adults, and domestic animals. Front Psychol. 2014 Jun 24;5:562. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00562. eCollection 2014. PMID: 25009511; PMCID: PMC4068198.
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Front Psychol. 2014 Jun 24;5:562. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00562. eCollection 2014.

Introducing the Oxford Vocal (OxVoc) Sounds database: a validated set of non-acted affective sounds from human infants, adults, and domestic animals.

Frontiers in psychology

Christine E Parsons, Katherine S Young, Michelle G Craske, Alan L Stein, Morten L Kringelbach

Affiliations

  1. Section of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford Oxford, UK ; Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University Aarhus, Denmark.
  2. Department of Psychology, University of California Los Angeles, CA, USA.
  3. Section of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford Oxford, UK.

PMID: 25009511 PMCID: PMC4068198 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00562

Abstract

Sound moves us. Nowhere is this more apparent than in our responses to genuine emotional vocalizations, be they heartfelt distress cries or raucous laughter. Here, we present perceptual ratings and a description of a freely available, large database of natural affective vocal sounds from human infants, adults and domestic animals, the Oxford Vocal (OxVoc) Sounds database. This database consists of 173 non-verbal sounds expressing a range of happy, sad, and neutral emotional states. Ratings are presented for the sounds on a range of dimensions from a number of independent participant samples. Perceptions related to valence, including distress, vocalizer mood, and listener mood are presented in Study 1. Perceptions of the arousal of the sound, listener motivation to respond and valence (positive, negative) are presented in Study 2. Perceptions of the emotional content of the stimuli in both Study 1 and 2 were consistent with the predefined categories (e.g., laugh stimuli perceived as positive). While the adult vocalizations received more extreme valence ratings, rated motivation to respond to the sounds was highest for the infant sounds. The major advantages of this database are the inclusion of vocalizations from naturalistic situations, which represent genuine expressions of emotion, and the inclusion of vocalizations from animals and infants, providing comparison stimuli for use in cross-species and developmental studies. The associated website provides a detailed description of the physical properties of each sound stimulus along with cross-category descriptions.

Keywords: auditory perception; caregiving; distress calls; emotion perception; infant crying; infant vocalization; parent-infant

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