European integration|member state politics|political cleavages

Demands to “take back control”, protests against European integration, and increasing contestation over supranational governance currently dominate...

The Transformation of Politics in Europe (PUBL0021)

This module is intended to equip students with an advanced understanding of the types of evidence that can inform the delivery of mental health care...

Mental Health Care: Evaluation and Policy (PSBS0007)

Outline:

This course builds on the skills acquired during the Physics foundation practical course undertaken in year 1. Students initially undertake one...

Practical Physics 3 (For Natural Sciences) (PHAS0054)

Audiology|Linguistics|Neural Circuits and Behaviour|Phonetics and Phonology|Psychology|Speech and Language Sciences

The human voice is a highly flexible tool for communication with others. The module aims to familiarise you with the main concepts in the behavioural and...

The Human Voice: Speech, Emotions, Identity (PALS0029)

The human voice is a highly flexible tool for communication with others. The module aims to familiarise you with the main concepts in the behavioural and neural processing of the human voice, and to introduce you to research on the expression and perception of speech, emotions, and identity. The topics will range from basic articulatory and acoustic properties of verbal and non-verbal vocal behaviour (e.g. speech, laughter), to social and cognitive aspects of voice processing (e.g. identity recognition, evaluation of personality traits), and their neural underpinnings.

Aims

The course aims to familiarize students with the main concepts in the behavioural and neural processing of the human voice, and to introduce them to a wide range of advanced topics in current research in all three areas.
	The topics will range from basic articulatory-acoustic processes and low-level auditory processing to high-level voice processing and neural correlates of voice production and perception in the brain.
	The issues will be discussed with respect to current research, including differences in research methodologies and their relationship to models of voice processing.
Undergraduate enquiries to d.newton@ucl.ac.uk
Postgraduate enquiries to pals.langsci@ucl.ac.uk