Emotional speech processing at the intersection of prosody and semantics.

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. Using a cross-modal emotional priming paradig...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:e38c0f2b4d794f7bbc475b0affcc0a892021-11-18T08:10:34ZEmotional speech processing at the intersection of prosody and semantics.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0047279https://doaj.org/article/e38c0f2b4d794f7bbc475b0affcc0a892012-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23118868/pdf/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203The 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. Using a cross-modal emotional priming paradigm (Facial affect decision task), we compared the relative contributions of processing utterances with single-channel (prosody-only) versus multi-channel (prosody and semantic) cues on the perception of happy, sad, and angry emotional expressions. Our data show that emotional speech cues produce robust congruency effects on decisions about an emotionally related face target, although no processing advantage occurred when prime stimuli contained multi-channel as opposed to single-channel speech cues. Our data suggest that utterances with prosodic cues alone and utterances with combined prosody and semantic cues both activate knowledge that leads to emotional congruency (priming) effects, but that the convergence of these two information sources does not always heighten access to this knowledge during emotional speech processing.Rachel SchwartzMarc D PellPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 7, Iss 10, p e47279 (2012)
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Rachel Schwartz
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Emotional speech processing at the intersection of prosody and semantics.
description 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. Using a cross-modal emotional priming paradigm (Facial affect decision task), we compared the relative contributions of processing utterances with single-channel (prosody-only) versus multi-channel (prosody and semantic) cues on the perception of happy, sad, and angry emotional expressions. Our data show that emotional speech cues produce robust congruency effects on decisions about an emotionally related face target, although no processing advantage occurred when prime stimuli contained multi-channel as opposed to single-channel speech cues. Our data suggest that utterances with prosodic cues alone and utterances with combined prosody and semantic cues both activate knowledge that leads to emotional congruency (priming) effects, but that the convergence of these two information sources does not always heighten access to this knowledge during emotional speech processing.
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title Emotional speech processing at the intersection of prosody and semantics.
title_short Emotional speech processing at the intersection of prosody and semantics.
title_full Emotional speech processing at the intersection of prosody and semantics.
title_fullStr Emotional speech processing at the intersection of prosody and semantics.
title_full_unstemmed Emotional speech processing at the intersection of prosody and semantics.
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