Work on voice sciences over recent decades has led to a proliferation of acoustic parameters that are used quite selectively and not always extracted in similar fashion. With many independent teams working different research areas, shared standards become an essential safeguard ensure compliance with state-of-the-art methods allowing appropriate comparison results across studies potential integration combination extraction recognition systems. In this paper we propose basic standard...

We present a cross-cultural study on the performance and perception of affective expression in music. Professional bowed-string musicians from different musical traditions (Swedish folk music, Hindustani classical Japanese traditional Western music) were instructed to perform short pieces music convey 11 emotions related states listeners. All stimuli judged by Swedish, Indian, participants balanced design, variety acoustic cues extracted. Results first showed that musicians' expressive...

Emotional vocalizations are central to human social life. Recent studies have documented that people recognize at least 13 emotions in brief vocalizations. This capacity emerges early development, is preserved some form across cultures, and informs how respond emotionally music. What poorly understood emotion recognition from vocalization structured within what we call a semantic space, the study of which addresses questions critical field: How many distinct kinds can be expressed? Do...

Actors vocally portrayed happiness, sadness, anger, fear, and disgust with weak strong emotion intensity while reading brief verbal phrases aloud. The portrayals were recorded analyzed according to 20 acoustic cues. Listeners decoded each portrayal by using forced-choice or quantitative ratings. results showed that (a) yielded higher decoding accuracy than intensity, (b) listeners able decode the of portrayals, (c) same different patterns cues, (d) certain cues (e.g., fundamental frequency,...

This study explored a dimensional approach to vocal expression of emotion. Actors vocally portrayed emotions (anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness) with weak and strong emotion intensity. Listeners (30 university students 6 speech experts) rated each portrayal on four dimensions (activation, valence, potency, intensity). The portrayals were also acoustically analysed respect 20 cues (e.g., rate, voice intensity, fundamental frequency, spectral energy distribution). results showed that:...

Individuals with schizophrenia show reliable deficits in the ability to recognize emotions from vocal expressions. Here, we examined emotion recognition 23 patients relative 17 healthy controls using a stimulus battery well-characterized acoustic features. We further evaluated performance ancillary assessments of underlying pitch perception abilities. As predicted, showed reduced across range emotions, which correlated impaired basic tone matching Emotion identification were strongly related...

Objective: Schizophrenia is associated with deficits in the ability to perceive emotion based on tone of voice. The basis for this deficit remains unclear, however, and relevant assessment batteries remain limited. authors evaluated performance schizophrenia a novel voice recognition battery well-characterized physical features, relative impairments more general emotional cognitive functioning. Method: studied primary sample 92 patients 73 comparison subjects. Stimuli were characterized...

Most research on cross-cultural emotion recognition has focused facial expressions. To integrate the body of evidence vocal expression, we present a meta-analysis 37 studies from speech prosody and nonlinguistic vocalizations, including expressers 26 cultural groups perceivers 44 different cultures. Results showed that wide variety positive negative emotions could be recognized with above-chance accuracy in conditions. However, there was also for in-group advantage higher within- versus The...

Which emotions are associated with universally recognized non-verbal signals?We address this issue by examining how reliably non-linguistic vocalizations (affect bursts) can convey across cultures. Actors from India, Kenya, Singapore, and USA were instructed to produce that would nine positive negative listeners. The judged Swedish listeners using a within-valence forced-choice procedure, where in separate experiments. Results showed could recognize wide range of accuracy above chance. For...

This study extends previous work on emotion communication across cultures with a large-scale investigation of the physical expression cues in vocal tone. In doing so, it provides first direct test key proposition dialect theory, namely that greater accuracy detecting emotions from one's own cultural group-known as in-group advantage-results match between culturally specific schemas emotional style and recognition. Study 1 used stimuli 100 professional actors five English-speaking nations...

Continua of vocal emotion expressions, ranging from one expression to another, were created using speech synthesis. Each continuum consisted expressions differing by equal physical amounts. In 2 experiments, subjects identified the each and discriminated between pairs expressions. Identification results show that continua perceived as distinct sections separated a sudden category boundary. Also, discrimination accuracy was generally higher for stimuli falling across boundaries than belonging...

Music is present in many sport and exercise situations, but empirical investigations on the motives for listening to music sports remain scarce. In this study, Swedish elite athletes ( N = 252) answered a questionnaire that focused emotional motivational uses of exercise. The contained both quantitative items assessed prevalence various music, open-ended targeted specific episodes relation sports. Results showed most often reported during pre-event preparations, warm-up, training sessions;...

Empirical studies have indicated that listeners value music primarily for its ability to arouse emotions. Yet little is known about which emotions normally experience when listening music, or the causes of these The goal this study was therefore explore prevalence emotional reactions in everyday life and how influenced by various factors listener, situation. A self-administered mail questionnaire sent a random nationally representative sample 1,500 Swedish citizens between ages 18 65, 762...

Deficits in auditory emotion recognition (AER) are a core feature of schizophrenia and key component social cognitive impairment. AER deficits tied behaviorally to impaired ability interpret tonal (“prosodic”) features speech that normally convey emotion, such as modulations base pitch (F0M) variability (F0SD). These can be recreated using synthetic frequency modulated (FM) tones mimic the prosodic contours specific emotional stimuli. The present study investigates neural mechanisms...

Age-related differences in emotion recognition have predominantly been investigated using static pictures of facial expressions, and positive emotions beyond happiness rarely included. The current study instead used dynamic vocal stimuli, included a wider than usual range emotions. In Task 1, younger older adults were tested for their abilities to recognize 12 from brief video recordings presented visual, auditory, multimodal blocks. 2 assessed 18 conveyed by non-linguistic vocalizations...

This study investigates whether cognitive feedback (CFB) can improve the expressive skills of music performers. CFB involves providing performers with information about how their use cues in performance compares to an optimal model for emotional communication based on listeners' judgments. Eight guitar players were asked perform short pieces so as communicate different emotions listeners. Their performances judged by fifty Multiple regression was used cue utilization both and listeners, two...

Empirical studies have indicated that listeners value music primarily for its ability to arouse emotions. Yet little is known about which emotions normally experience when listening music, or the causes of these The goal this study was therefore explore prevalence emotional reactions in everyday life and how influenced by various factors listener, situation. A self-administered mail questionnaire sent a random nationally representative sample 1,500 Swedish citizens between ages 18 65, 762...