Does the human brain process angry voices automatically?

Only when a result is obtained repeatedly (is ‘replicable’) does it count as a discovery. Neurolinguistics uses measurement of brain activity (neuroimaging) to study language processing in the brain. Due to small sample size, replicability of neuroimaging might be limited, but currently there are no close replications. A prominent small study found that brain areas process angry voices even when unattended (‘automatically’), having implications for neurolinguistic theory and disorders such as autism. This project will replicate this study with a large sample size and perform a more stringent statistical test to find out if angry voices are indeed processed automatically.