Processing of affective prosody and lexical-semantics in spoken utterances as differentiated by event-related potentials

Wambacq, Ilse; Jerger, James

doi:10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2004.03.015

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“…While we cannot determine this, our results highlight the importance in both healthy and TBI participants of semantic content over prosodic information (Pell & Baum, 1997 ;Pell, 2006 ), in line with a semantic processing bias (Besson et al, 2002 ;Grimshaw, 1998 ;Jerger et al, 1993 ;Wambacq & Jerger, 2004 ).…”

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Recognizing vocal expressions of emotion in patients with social skills deficits following traumatic brain injury

Dimoska

McDonald

Pell

et al. 2010

J Int Neuropsychol Soc

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Perception of emotion in voice is impaired following traumatic brain injury (TBI). This study examined whether an inability to concurrently process semantic information (the "what") and emotional prosody (the "how") of spoken speech contributes to impaired recognition of emotional prosody and whether impairment is ameliorated when little or no semantic information is provided. Eighteen individuals with moderate-to-severe TBI showing social skills deficits during inpatient rehabilitation were compared with 18 demographically matched controls. Participants completed two discrimination tasks using spoken sentences that varied in the amount of semantic information: that is, (1) well-formed English, (2) a nonsense language, and (3) low-pass filtered speech producing "muffled" voices. Reducing semantic processing demands did not improve perception of emotional prosody. The TBI group were significantly less accurate than controls. Impairment was greater within the TBI group when accessing semantic memory to label the emotion of sentences, compared with simply making "same/different" judgments. Findings suggest an impairment of processing emotional prosody itself rather than semantic processing demands which leads to an over-reliance on the "what" rather than the "how" in conversational remarks. Emotional recognition accuracy was significantly related to the ability to inhibit prepotent responses, consistent with neuroanatomical research suggesting similar ventrofrontal systems subserve both functions.

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Recognizing vocal expressions of emotion in patients with social skills deficits following traumatic brain injury

Dimoska

McDonald

Pell

et al. 2010

J Int Neuropsychol Soc

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“…Thierry and Roberts, 2007;Wambacq and Jerger, 2004) and the N400 component (review: Kotz and Paulmann, 2011). Up until today most evidence on auditory emotion processing originates from investigations of nonverbal stimuli as, for instance, the sound of a crying baby or a growling dog (e.g.…”

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Affective responses to emotional words are boosted in communicative situations

Rohr

Rahman

2015

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“…As stated above, the brain can recognize vocal emotion change in both passive and active oddball paradigms, but the time course of the brain response varied as a function of task demands, suggesting a critical role of task focus (Goydke et al 2004;Wambacq and Jerger 2004). However, early studies adopting cross-splicing paradigm reported that vocal emotion expectancy violation elicited PEP independent of task relevance (Kotz and Paulmann 2007;Paulmann and Kotz 2008), implying that the processing of vocal emotion change is not primarily influenced by task focus.…”

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“…Thus, task focus modulates the late stage of vocal emotion change perception, but not the early stage. Nevertheless, this conclusion mainly results from the ERP studies which focus on phase-locked neural activity (Chen et al 2011(Chen et al , 2012Goydke et al 2004;Wambacq and Jerger 2004). Supportive evidences from EEG oscillatory dynamics, as suggested by Cacace and McFarland (2003), are highly necessary.…”

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“…Specifically, though the ERP data in previous studies (Chen et al 2011;Jiang et al 2014;Wambacq and Jerger 2004) effectively depicted the time course of processing emotional change information, the acquisition of ERP data is exclusively restricted to phase-locked averaging (Luck 2005;Pfurtscheller and da Silva 1999). In contrast, timefrequency analysis provides non-phase-locked indexes of cognitive processing, and thus delineates the neural oscillatory dynamics, an inherent characteristic of synchronizing or desynchronizing ongoing activity in various frequency bands Neuper and Klimesch 2006;Pfurtscheller and da Silva 1999).…”

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EEG oscillations reflect task effects for the change detection in vocal emotion

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How task focus affects recognition of change in vocal emotion remains in debate. In this study, we investigated the role of task focus for change detection in emotional prosody by measuring changes in event-related electroencephalogram (EEG) power. EEG was recorded for prosodies with and without emotion change while subjects performed emotion change detection task (explicit) and visual probe detection task (implicit). We found that vocal emotion change induced theta event-related synchronization during 100-600 ms regardless of task focus. More importantly, vocal emotion change induced significant beta event-related desynchronization during 400-750 ms under explicit instead of implicit task condition. These findings suggest that the detection of emotional changes is independent of task focus, while the task focus effect in neural processing of vocal emotion change is specific to the integration of emotional deviations.

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Processing of affective prosody and lexical-semantics in spoken utterances as differentiated by event-related potentials

Cited by 51 publications

References 56 publications

Recognizing vocal expressions of emotion in patients with social skills deficits following traumatic brain injury

Recognizing vocal expressions of emotion in patients with social skills deficits following traumatic brain injury

Affective responses to emotional words are boosted in communicative situations

EEG oscillations reflect task effects for the change detection in vocal emotion

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