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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Vocal emotion"”.
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The influence of individual difference variables on vocal emotion processing
Extensive research has been done on vocal emotion processing and it has been repeatedly argued that individual difference variables can influence emotion processing. Few studies have, however, examined these differences systematically and comprehensively in the vocal emotion domain. Thus, three …
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A behavioural and electrophysiological exploration into facial and vocal emotion processing in children with behaviour problems
… exploration of children’s facial and vocal emotion processing. Former research has suggested that social dysfunctioning in school-aged children with behaviour problems may stem from difficulties in understanding others’ emotions from facial expressions. Study 1 examined emotion …
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Effects of Facial and Vocal Emotion on Word Recognition in 11-to-13-month-old infants
… multiple functions, including communication of emotion and highlighting linguistic aspects of speech. However, these two functions are most often studied separately so that the influence of emotional prosody (the changes in intonation and vocal quality that relate to emotion) on linguistic …
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Improving Understanding of Emotional Speech Acoustic Content
… cochlear implants show deficits in identifying emotional intent of utterances without facial or body language cues. A known limitation to cochlear implants is the inability to accurately portray the fundamental frequency contour of speech which carries the majority of information needed to …
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Investigating the Role of Working Memory on Emotion Recognition Accuracy in Emerging Adults
Emotion recognition involves interpreting nonverbal cues like facial expressions and tone of voice. Vocal emotion recognition is more challenging and matures later than facial recognition. However, research often uses static facial expressions and dynamic vocal expressions, leading to biased …
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Joint Processing of Audio -Visual Information for the Recognition of Emotional Expressions in Human -Computer Interaction
… thesis addresses the problem of detecting human emotional expressions by computer from the voice and facial motions of the user. The computer is equipped with a microphone to listen to the user's voice, and a video camera to look at the user. Prosodic features in the audio and facial motions …
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Differential Perception of Auditory and Visual Aspects of Emotion in 7- to 15-Month-Old Infants
Infant-directed registers are emotion communication, conveying feelings and intentions to infants and toddlers that may facilitate and modulate attention and language learning. As infants are attracted to emotion, it is essential to understand how infants process emotional information. This study …
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Children’s recognition of emotional tone-of-voice
… children demonstrate lower recognition in vocal emotion recognition tasks across past literature. This thesis explored if the quality of stimuli used in assessing recognition (of anger, fear, happiness, sadness, pleasant-surprise, and neutrality) could meaningfully influence …
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ON THE ROLE OF VOCAL EMOTIONS FOR VERBAL MEMORY: AN INVESTIGATION OF NEURAL AND PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL MECHANISMS
… substrates underlying the influence of vocal emotions on verbal memory. Heart rate and fMRI data were acquired while participants performed a verbal memory task comprising an encoding phase (memorizing words) and a test phase (memory recognition). During encoding, attending to sad as …
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Perception of prosody by cochlear implant recipients
… versus sentences). The third experiment tested emotional prosody and phoneme perception of NH and CI listeners in SWN using sentence stimuli and a 4AFC test paradigm for both tasks. In NH listeners, deterioration slopes of prosody and phonemes (vowels and consonants) did not differ …