Brain Uses One Code for Face and Voice

fMRI pattern analysis from a Brussels study suggests the brain represents facial and vocal emotional cues with largely the same neural signal across multiple sensory regions, so the mind treats sight and sound of emotion as a single 'language.' Faces still dominate recognition and combining modalities changed responses without improving decoding accuracy in this small sample. — If emotion perception is a unified, multisensory neural code, that matters for affective technology, mental‑health screening, legal questions about inferred states, and ethics around devices that read or simulate feelings.