How Do Infants Disaggregate Referential and Affective Pitch?
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Infants are faced with a challenge of disaggregating functions of pitch in the ambient language into affective, pragmatic or referential (the latter in tone languages only).
René Kager
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Predicting continuous conflict perception with Bayesian Gaussian processes [PDF]
, 2014 Conflict is one of the most important phenomena of social life, but it is still largely neglected by the computing community. This work proposes an approach that detects common conversational social signals (loudness, overlapping speech, etc.) and ...
Filippone, Maurizio +3 more
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Common premotor regions for the perception and production of prosody and correlations with empathy and prosodic ability. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2010 Prosody, the melody and intonation of speech, involves the rhythm, rate, pitch and voice quality to relay linguistic and emotional information from one individual to another. A significant component of human social communication depends upon interpreting
Lisa Aziz-Zadeh +2 more
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CACNA1C risk variant affects microstructural connectivity of the amygdala
NeuroImage: Clinical, 2019 Deficits in perception of emotional prosody have been described in patients with affective disorders at behavioral and neural level. In the current study, we use an imaging genetics approach to examine the impact of CACNA1C, one of the most promising ...
Katharina Koch +8 more
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Auditory affective norms for German: testing the influence of depression and anxiety on valence and arousal ratings. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 BACKGROUND: The study of emotional speech perception and emotional prosody necessitates stimuli with reliable affective norms. However, ratings may be affected by the participants' current emotional state as increased anxiety and depression have been ...
Philipp Kanske, Sonja A Kotz
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Affective Medicine: a review of Affective Computing efforts in Medical Informatics [PDF]
, 2010 Background: Affective computing (AC) is concerned with emotional interactions performed with and through computers. It is defined as “computing that relates to, arises from, or deliberately influences emotions”. AC enables investigation and understanding
Bamidis, Panagiotis +2 more
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Atypical neural responses to vocal anger in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder [PDF]
, 2014 Background Deficits in facial emotion processing, reported in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), have been linked to both early perceptual and later attentional components of event-related potentials (ERPs).
Banaschewski +59 more
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A neural marker for social bias toward in-group accents [PDF]
, 2014 Accents provide information about the speaker's geographical, socio-economic, and ethnic background. Research in applied psychology and sociolinguistics suggests that we generally prefer our own accent to other varieties of our native language and ...
Belin, Pascal +2 more
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Interpersonal prosodic correlation in frontotemporal dementia. [PDF]
, 2019 Communication accommodation describes how individuals adjust their communicative style to that of their conversational partner. We predicted that interpersonal prosodic correlation related to pitch and timing would be decreased in behavioral variant ...
Chen, Kuan-Hua +7 more
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The sound of feelings: electrophysiological responses to emotional speech in alexithymia.
PLoS ONE, 2012 BackgroundAlexithymia is a personality trait characterized by difficulties in the cognitive processing of emotions (cognitive dimension) and in the experience of emotions (affective dimension).
Katharina Sophia Goerlich +2 more
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