Comprehension of acoustically degraded emotional prosody in Alzheimer’s disease and primary progressive aphasia [PDF]
Scientific ReportsPrevious research suggests that emotional prosody perception is impaired in neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and primary progressive aphasia (PPA).
Jessica Jiang +13 more
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Functional partitioning of sentence processing and emotional prosody in the right perisylvian cortex after perinatal stroke [PDF]
Scientific ReportsIn healthy adults different language abilities—sentence processing versus emotional prosody—are supported by the left (LH) versus the right hemisphere (RH), respectively.
Kelly C. Martin +5 more
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Emotional prosody processing in autism spectrum disorder. [PDF]
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci, 2017 Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are characterized by severe deficits in social communication, whereby the nature of their impairments in emotional prosody processing have yet to be specified. Here, we investigated emotional prosody processing in individuals with ASD and controls with novel, lifelike behavioral and neuroimaging paradigms.
Rosenblau G +3 more
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How Psychological Stress Affects Emotional Prosody. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2016 We explored how experimentally induced psychological stress affects the production and recognition of vocal emotions. In Study 1a, we demonstrate that sentences spoken by stressed speakers are judged by naïve listeners as sounding more stressed than sentences uttered by non-stressed speakers. In Study 1b, negative emotions produced by stressed speakers
Paulmann S +3 more
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Second Language Ability and Emotional Prosody Perception. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2016 The present study examines the effect of language experience on vocal emotion perception in a second language. Native speakers of French with varying levels of self-reported English ability were asked to identify emotions from vocal expressions produced by American actors in a forced-choice task, and to rate their pleasantness, power, alertness and ...
Bhatara A +5 more
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Emotional Prosody Processing in Epilepsy: Some Insights on Brain Reorganization [PDF]
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2018 Drug resistant epilepsy is one of the most complex, multifactorial and polygenic neurological syndrome. Besides its dynamicity and variability, it still provides us with a model to study brain-behavior relationship, giving cues on the anatomy and ...
Lucy Alba-Ferrara +3 more
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Instrumental music training relates to intensity assessment but not emotional prosody recognition in Mandarin. [PDF]
PLoS ONEBuilding on research demonstrating the benefits of music training for emotional prosody recognition in nontonal languages, this study delves into its unexplored influence on tonal languages.
Mengting Liu, Xiangbin Teng, Jun Jiang
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Speak or shout? Nonverbal vocalizations promote rapid detection of emotions in vocal communication. [PDF]
PLoS ONEHuman vocal expressions of emotion can be expressed nonverbally, through vocalizations such as shouts or laughter, or speakers can embed emotional meanings in language by modifying their tone of voice ("prosody").
Marc D Pell +3 more
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Emotional speech processing at the intersection of prosody and semantics. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 The ability to accurately perceive emotions is crucial for effective social interaction. Many questions remain regarding how different sources of emotional cues in speech (e.g., prosody, semantic information) are processed during emotional communication.
Rachel Schwartz, Marc D Pell
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Mark my words: tone of voice changes affective word representations in memory. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2010 The present study explored the effect of speaker prosody on the representation of words in memory. To this end, participants were presented with a series of words and asked to remember the words for a subsequent recognition test. During study, words were
Annett Schirmer
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