Modulation of cognitive goals and sensorimotor actions in face-to-face communication by emotional states: The action-based approach

Abstract

Cognitive goals - i.e. the intention to utter a sentence and to produce co-speech facial and hand-arm gestures - as well as the sensorimotor realization of the intended speech, co-speech facial, and co-speech hand-arm actions are modulated by the emotional state of the speaker. In this review paper it will be illustrated how cognitive goals and sensorimotor speech, co-speech facial, and co-speech hand-arm actions are modulated by emotional states of the speaker, how emotional states are perceived and recognized by interlocutors in the context of face-to-face communication, and which brain regions are responsible for production and perception of emotions in face-to-face communication. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014.