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I'm Cody Gough.

And I'm Ashley Hamer.

Today you'll learn about how much you can say with simple noises,

why you might keep hearing about the Kepler Space Telescope even though it's retired,

and how you can find out where your house would have been on Pangea.

But set us some curiosity.

There's new research into how much we can communicate using a thing called vocal bursts. You absolutely use these.

They include laughs and roars, ooze and aze, sighs and shrieks. It's those little non-language-based noises we make, and this study is super fun.

Ooh. Mm-mm. Yeah, that's a vocal burst, one of those, hmm, or, ah, sounds.

Also, the website they made is super alarming if you go to it for the first time.

I would absolutely recommend headphones or pressing mute before you click on the

link that we've gotten the show notes. Yeah there's going to be some sound

effects involved in this story so let's dig in now this research was published in a

recent paper in American psychologist and it comes

from an emerging field in psychology called Emotion Science. It has its own journal

and everything. Anyway the point of this study was to see how many feelings

you can communicate with these little vocal bursts.

According to past studies,

people could recognize 13 emotions in vocal bursts.

But those studies took answers from multiple choice questionnaires,

so the options were kind of limited in what they could find.

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