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Interactive map of grunts, groans, sighs and other sounds

A surprisingly vocal map of human sounds and emotions now exists online. This map is not a geographical map, it is a noisy map:

The map, and the whats and wheres of it, get a detailed description in the study ā€œMapping 24 emotions conveyed by brief human vocalization,ā€ Alan S. Cowen, Hillary Anger Elfenbein, Petri Laukka, and Dacher Keltner, American Psychologist, epub 2018.

The Linguistic Society of America has a seemingly lengthy writeup about it, including lots of words but no actual sounds.

Open Culture has a nice writeup about it, including a nice picture of the map, unremarkably similar to the map you see here.

(Thanks to Estrella Burgos for bringing this to our attention.)

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