Peripheral responses to attended and unattended angry prosody: A dichotic listening paradigm

Aue, Tatjana; Cuny, Caroline; Sander, David; Grandjean, Didier

doi:10.1111/j.1469-8986.2010.01064.x

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“…With respect to the laterality effect for the attended ear, our findings are partially inconsistent with those of previous dichotic listening studies [12], [13], [46], [54], [55]. For instance, in a paper by Hugdahl et al, the authors used simple consonant–vowel syllables and found that subjects tended to answer the sound from the right ear more often than that from left ear when subjects were not forced attention to either of ear [55].…”

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“…The previous studies that also forced subjects to attend right or left ear similarly failed to find laterality effect on CR [12], [13], [46]. Although one previous study [54] reported laterality effect on CR utilizing the similar experimental design as these studies [12], [13], [46] in participants predominantly consists of males. The current study as well as the previous studies [12], [13], [46] included a number of female subjects.…”

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“…The amplitude (negative; positive; neutral, mean/SD/range = −77.6/6.3/−90.3 to −67.4; −79.6/7.9/−66.8 to −90.3; −77.4/7.0/−65.2 to −90.3 dB) and pitch (negative; positive; neutral, mean/SD/range = 925.7/640.2/288.5–2679.0; 870.4/538.4/374.2–1925.7; 1035.3/646.8/295.7–2468.4 Hz) did not significantly differ among the negative, positive, and neutral word categories (F[2,89] = 0.69, p = 0.50 and F[2,97] = 0.62, p = 0.54 respectively). In addition, the mean acoustic energies (RMS) of the two words, which were presented simultaneously in a dichotic paradigm, were always matched using Mitsyn® (WLH) and CoolEdit Pro® (Syntrillium Software Corporation), according to previous studies [12], [13], [45], [46].…”

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Aberrant Interference of Auditory Negative Words on Attention in Patients with Schizophrenia

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Yahata

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Previous research suggests that deficits in attention-emotion interaction are implicated in schizophrenia symptoms. Although disruption in auditory processing is crucial in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia, deficits in interaction between emotional processing of auditorily presented language stimuli and auditory attention have not yet been clarified. To address this issue, the current study used a dichotic listening task to examine 22 patients with schizophrenia and 24 age-, sex-, parental socioeconomic background-, handedness-, dexterous ear-, and intelligence quotient-matched healthy controls. The participants completed a word recognition task on the attended side in which a word with emotionally valenced content (negative/positive/neutral) was presented to one ear and a different neutral word was presented to the other ear. Participants selectively attended to either ear. In the control subjects, presentation of negative but not positive word stimuli provoked a significantly prolonged reaction time compared with presentation of neutral word stimuli. This interference effect for negative words existed whether or not subjects directed attention to the negative words. This interference effect was significantly smaller in the patients with schizophrenia than in the healthy controls. Furthermore, the smaller interference effect was significantly correlated with severe positive symptoms and delusional behavior in the patients with schizophrenia. The present findings suggest that aberrant interaction between semantic processing of negative emotional content and auditory attention plays a role in production of positive symptoms in schizophrenia. (224 words)

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Aberrant Interference of Auditory Negative Words on Attention in Patients with Schizophrenia

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“…The steady decrease of tonic SCL seen in the control condition is the expected autonomic response associated with predictable and low-arousal control tasks, such as reading aloud (15). Although reports of systematic SCL dissociation between fear, sadness, and happiness are inconsistent (16), tonic SCL increase is typically associated with activated emotional states (17) as well as the appraisal of emotional speech or images (18,19).…”

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Covert digital manipulation of vocal emotion alter speakers’ emotional states in a congruent direction

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Johansson

Häll

et al. 2016

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Research has shown that people often exert control over their emotions. By modulating expressions, reappraising feelings, and redirecting attention, they can regulate their emotional experience. These findings have contributed to a blurring of the traditional boundaries between cognitive and emotional processes, and it has been suggested that emotional signals are produced in a goaldirected way and monitored for errors like other intentional actions. However, this interesting possibility has never been experimentally tested. To this end, we created a digital audio platform to covertly modify the emotional tone of participants' voices while they talked in the direction of happiness, sadness, or fear. The result showed that the audio transformations were being perceived as natural examples of the intended emotions, but the great majority of the participants, nevertheless, remained unaware that their own voices were being manipulated. This finding indicates that people are not continuously monitoring their own voice to make sure that it meets a predetermined emotional target. Instead, as a consequence of listening to their altered voices, the emotional state of the participants changed in congruence with the emotion portrayed, which was measured by both self-report and skin conductance level. This change is the first evidence, to our knowledge, of peripheral feedback effects on emotional experience in the auditory domain. As such, our result reinforces the wider framework of self-perception theory: that we often use the same inferential strategies to understand ourselves as those that we use to understand others. emotion monitoring | vocal feedback | self-perception | digital audio effects | voice emotion

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“…Participants are requested to focus their attention on one ear and to determine the gender of the speaker on the attended ear. Recently, Aue et al (2011) reported that, compared to neutral prosody, angry prosody attracts attention and induces behavioral and physiological changes (e.g., increased forehead temperature) with or without voluntary attention. Moreover, neuroimaging studies indicated greater activation for angry relative to neutral prosody in the superior temporal sulcus (Grandjean et al, 2005; Sander et al, 2005) and the amygdala (Sander et al, 2005) irrespective of the focus of attention.…”

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Towards a cross-modal perspective of emotional perception in social anxiety: review and future directions

Peschard

Maurage

Philippot

2014

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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The excessive fear of being negatively evaluated constitutes a central component of social anxiety (SA). Models posit that selective attention to threat and biased interpretations of ambiguous stimuli contribute to the maintenance of this psychopathology. There is strong support for the existence of processing biases but most of the available evidence comes from face research. Emotions are, however, not only conveyed through facial cues, but also through other channels, such as vocal and postural cues. These non-facial cues have yet received much less attention. We therefore plead for a cross-modal investigation of biases in SA. We argue that the inclusion of new modalities may be an efficient research tool to (1) address the specificity or generalizability of these biases; (2) offer an insight into the potential influence of SA on cross-modal processes; (3) operationalize emotional ambiguity by manipulating cross-modal emotional congruency; (4) inform the debate about the role of top-down and bottom-up factors in biasing attention; and (5) probe the cross-modal generalizability of cognitive training. Theoretical and clinical implications as well as potential fruitful avenues for research are discussed.

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Peripheral responses to attended and unattended angry prosody: A dichotic listening paradigm

Cited by 26 publications

References 65 publications

Aberrant Interference of Auditory Negative Words on Attention in Patients with Schizophrenia

Aberrant Interference of Auditory Negative Words on Attention in Patients with Schizophrenia

Covert digital manipulation of vocal emotion alter speakers’ emotional states in a congruent direction

Towards a cross-modal perspective of emotional perception in social anxiety: review and future directions

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