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Marc D. Pell - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • emotion in the voice influences the way we scan Emotional faces
    Speech Communication, 2014
    Co-Authors: Simon Rigoulot, Marc D. Pell
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    Abstract Previous eye-tracking studies have found that listening to Emotionally-inflected utterances guides visual behavior towards an Emotionally congruent face (e.g., Rigoulot and Pell, 2012). Here, we investigated in more detail whether Emotional speech prosody influences how participants scan and fixate specific features of an Emotional face that is congruent or incongruent with the prosody. Twenty-one participants viewed individual faces expressing fear, sadness, disgust, or happiness while listening to an Emotionally-inflected pseudo-utterance spoken in a congruent or incongruent prosody. Participants judged whether the Emotional Meaning of the face and voice were the same or different (match/mismatch). Results confirm that there were significant effects of prosody congruency on eye movements when participants scanned a face, although these varied by emotion type; a matching prosody promoted more frequent looks to the upper part of fear and sad facial expressions, whereas visual attention to upper and lower regions of happy (and to some extent disgust) faces was more evenly distributed. These data suggest ways that vocal emotion cues guide how humans process facial expressions in a way that could facilitate recognition of salient visual cues, to arrive at a holistic impression of intended Meanings during interpersonal events.

  • facial expression decoding as a function of Emotional Meaning status erp evidence
    Neuroreport, 2009
    Co-Authors: Silke Paulmann, Marc D. Pell
    Abstract:

    To further specify the time course of (Emotional) face processing, this study compared event-related potentials elicited by faces conveying prototypical basic emotions, nonprototypical affective expressions (grimaces), and neutral faces. Results showed that prototypical and nonprototypical facial expressions could each be differentiated from neutral expressions in three different event-related potential component amplitudes (P200, early negativity, and N400), which are believed to index distinct processing stages in facial expression decoding. On the basis of the distribution of effects, our results suggest that early processing is mediated by shared neural generators for prototypical and nonprototypical facial expressions; however, later processing stages seem to engage distinct subsystems for the three facial expression types investigated according to their Emotionality and Meaning status.

  • Effects of acoustic cue manipulations on Emotional prosody recognition.
    Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2008
    Co-Authors: Chinar Dara, Marc D. Pell
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    Studies on emotion recognition from prosody have largely focused on the role and effectiveness of isolated acoustic parameters and less is known about how information from these cues is perceived and combined to infer Emotional Meaning. To better understand how acoustic cues influence recognition of discrete emotions from voice, this study investigated how listeners perceptually combine information from two critical acoustic cues, pitch and speech rate, to identify emotions. For all the utterances, pitch and speech rate measures of the whole utterance were independently manipulated by factors of 1.25 (+25%) and 0.75 (−25%). To examine the influence of one cue with reference to the other cue the three manipulations of pitch (+25%, 0%, and −25%) were crossed with the three manipulations of speech rate (+25%, 0%, and −25%). Pseudoutterances spoken in five Emotional tones (happy, sad, angry, fear, and disgust) and neutral that have undergone acoustic cue manipulations were presented to 15 male and 15 female p...

  • Prosody–face Interactions in Emotional Processing as Revealed by the Facial Affect Decision Task
    Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 2005
    Co-Authors: Marc D. Pell
    Abstract:

    Previous research employing the facial affect decision task (FADT) indicates that when listeners are exposed to semantically anomalous utterances produced in different Emotional tones ( prosody) , the Emotional Meaning of the prosody primes decisions about an Emotionally congruent rather than incongruent facial expression (Pell, M. D., Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 29 , 45–73). This study undertook further development of the FADT by investigating the approximate timecourse of prosody–face interactions in nonverbal emotion processing. Participants executed facial affect decisions about happy and sad face targets after listening to utterance fragments produced in an Emotionally related, unrelated, or neutral prosody, cut to 300, 600, or 1000 ms in duration. Results underscored that prosodic information enduring at least 600 ms was necessary to presumably activate shared emotion knowledge responsible for prosody–face congruity effects.

Roland Littlewood - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • components of Emotional Meaning a sourcebook
    British Journal of Psychiatry, 2014
    Co-Authors: Roland Littlewood
    Abstract:

    Components of Emotional Meaning: A Sourcebook Edited by Johnny J. R. Fontaine, Klaus R. Scherer, & Cristina Soriano. Oxford University Press. 2013. £60.00 (hb). 672 pp. ISBN: 9780199592746 Emotions have gradually replaced instincts in human evolution, allowing flexible and varied responses in a

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Friedemann Pulvermuller - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • a role for the motor system in binding abstract Emotional Meaning
    Cerebral Cortex, 2012
    Co-Authors: Rachel L Moseley, Francesca Carota, Olaf Hauk, Bettina Mohr, Friedemann Pulvermuller
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    Sensorimotor areas activate to action- and object-related words, but their role in abstract Meaning processing is still debated. Abstract emotion words denoting body internal states are a critical test case because they lack referential links to objects. If actions expressing emotion are crucial for learning correspondences between word forms and emotions, emotion word–evoked activity should emerge in motor brain systems controlling the face and arms, which typically express emotions. To test this hypothesis, we recruited 18 native speakers and used event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging to compare brain activation evoked by abstract emotion words to that by face- and arm-related action words. In addition to limbic regions, emotion words indeed sparked precentral cortex, including body-part–specific areas activated somatotopically by face words or arm words. Control items, including hash mark strings and animal words, failed to activate precentral areas. We conclude that, similar to their role in action word processing, activation of frontocentral motor systems in the dorsal stream reflects the semantic binding of sign and Meaning of abstract words denoting emotions and possibly other body internal states.

Barbara Zoro - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.