Paper Info
Title
Context And Priming Effects In The Recognition Of Emotion Of Old And Young Listeners
Abstract
The development of our ability to recognize (vocal) emotional expression has been relatively understudied. Even less studied is the effect of linguistic (spoken) context on emotion perception. In this study we investigate the performance of young (1825) and old (60-85) listeners on two tasks: an emotion recognition task where emotions expressed in a sustained vowel (/a/) had to be recognized and an emotion attribution task where listeners had to judge a neutral fragment that was preceded by a phrase that varied in speech rate and/or loudness. The results of the recognition task showed that old and young participants do not differ in their recognition accuracy. The emotion attribution task showed that young listeners are more likely to interpret neutral stimuli as emotional when the preceding speech is emotionally colored. The results are interpreted as evidence for diminished plasticity later in life.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2011
12TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2011 (INTERSPEECH 2011), VOLS 1-5
vocal emotion decoding, context effects
Field
DocType
Citations 
Loudness,Computer science,Emotion perception,Phrase,Cognitive psychology,Priming (psychology),Speech recognition,Attribution,Emotional expression,Vowel,Stimulus (physiology)
Conference
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
3
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Martijn Goudbeek17213.73
Marie Nilsenová261.60