Recognizing Emotions in a Foreign Language

Pell, Marc D.; Monetta, Laura; Paulmann, Silke; Kotz, Sonja A.

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“…In this study, we investigate whether certain nonverbal emotional vocalizations communicate the same affective states regardless of the listener's culture. Currently, the only available cross-cultural data of vocal signals come from studies of emotional prosody in speech (6)(7)(8). This work has indicated that listeners can infer some affective states from emotionally inflected speech across cultural boundaries.…”

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Cross-cultural recognition of basic emotions through nonverbal emotional vocalizations

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Emotional signals are crucial for sharing important information, with conspecifics, for example, to warn humans of danger. Humans use a range of different cues to communicate to others how they feel, including facial, vocal, and gestural signals. We examined the recognition of nonverbal emotional vocalizations, such as screams and laughs, across two dramatically different cultural groups. Western participants were compared to individuals from remote, culturally isolated Namibian villages. Vocalizations communicating the so-called “basic emotions” (anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness, and surprise) were bidirectionally recognized. In contrast, a set of additional emotions was only recognized within, but not across, cultural boundaries. Our findings indicate that a number of primarily negative emotions have vocalizations that can be recognized across cultures, while most positive emotions are communicated with culture-specific signals

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Cross-cultural recognition of basic emotions through nonverbal emotional vocalizations

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“…Much of the emotional quality of the human voice can be inferred by the physical features of the vocalisation, and by the sonic properties of one's speech. Nonverbal expressions, for example, communicate affective meaning and information about the speaker's state of mind independently of linguistic cues, as shown by cross-cultural studies (Scherer et al, 2001;Pell et al, 2009). The human auditory system is especially sensitive to the human voice.…”

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Subcortical processing in auditory communication

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a b s t r a c tThe voice is a rich source of information, which the human brain has evolved to decode and interpret. Empirical observations have shown that the human auditory system is especially sensitive to the human voice, and that activity within the voice-sensitive regions of the primary and secondary auditory cortex is modulated by the emotional quality of the vocal signal, and may therefore subserve, with frontal regions, the cognitive ability to correctly identify the speaker's affective state. So far, the network involved in the processing of vocal affect has been mainly characterised at the cortical level. However, anatomical and functional evidence suggests that acoustic information relevant to the affective quality of the auditory signal might be processed prior to the auditory cortex.Here we review the animal and human literature on the main subcortical structures along the auditory pathway, and propose a model whereby the distinction between different types of vocal affect in auditory communication begins at very early stages of auditory processing, and relies on the analysis of individual acoustic features of the sound signal. We further suggest that this early feature-based decoding occurs at a subcortical level along the ascending auditory pathway, and provides a preliminary coarse (but fast) characterisation of the affective quality of the auditory signal before the more refined (but slower) cortical processing is completed.

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“…Interestingly, few investigations have attended to social psychological factors that could potentially influence emotional speech recognition. Exceptions to this come from research on the moderating role of cultural background (e.g., Paulmann & Uskul, 2014;Pell, Monetta, Paulmann & Kotz, 2009;Scherer et al, 2001), sex (e.g., Schirmer, Kotz, & Friederici, 2002) and age (e.g. Paulmann et al, 2008;Kiss & Ennis, 2001) in emotional prosody processing.…”

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Social power and recognition of emotional prosody: High power is associated with lower recognition accuracy than low power.

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2016

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Listeners have to pay close attention to a speaker’s tone of voice (prosody) during daily conversations. This is particularly important when trying to infer the emotional state of the speaker. Although a growing body of research has explored how emotions are processed from speech in general, little is known about how psychosocial factors such as social power can shape the perception of vocal emotional attributes. Thus, the present studies explored how social power affects emotional prosody recognition. In a correlational study (Study 1) and an experimental study (Study 2), we show that high power is associated with lower accuracy in emotional prosody recognition than low power. These results, for the first time, suggest that individuals experiencing high or low power perceive emotional tone of voice differently.

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Recognizing Emotions in a Foreign Language

Cited by 235 publications

References 34 publications

Cross-cultural recognition of basic emotions through nonverbal emotional vocalizations

Cross-cultural recognition of basic emotions through nonverbal emotional vocalizations

Subcortical processing in auditory communication

Social power and recognition of emotional prosody: High power is associated with lower recognition accuracy than low power.

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