Vocally Expressed Emotions Recognition

We recruited 20 male participants for this study (mean age = 25.19 years, SD = 4.08, range = 19–34, all right-handed); the sample size was based on previous fast periodic auditory stimulation studies (e.g., [49 (link)]). We only included male participants to avoid gender effects in the recognition of vocally expressed emotions [51 (link)]. All subjects reported intact hearing ability, which was confirmed by pure tone audiometry (average PTA hearing loss below 25 dB HL for every participant). Subjects were Dutch native speakers and received a monetary reward for participating. No one reported any history of psychiatric or neurological disorders. Before the start of the experiment, all subjects signed an informed consent form approved by the Medical Ethics Committee UZ/KU Leuven (reference S62969).