The Daily Free Press recounts the HUBWeek event in which Center Director Bruce Rosen and medical illustrator Danny Quirk spoke about the intersectionality of human anatomy and visual art.
NPR talks to Lisa Feldman Barrett about the 'emotional grammar' of language
June 2, 2014
What's in a grunt? In a recent episode of All Things Considered, Shankar Vedantam spoke with the Martinos Center's Lisa Feldman Barrett about the ways in which we perceive emotions in sounds. Scientists have long assumed that sounds such as laughing and crying carry the same meaning across cultures. But is this actually the case? Barrett and colleagues tested the assumption and arrived at an interesting conclusion. Hear what she had to say about the study—or read a transcript from the episode—here.