Does incongruency of lexico-semantic and prosodic information cause discernable cognitive conflict? Running Head: Emotional Incongruity in Speech
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We are often required to interpret discordant emotional signals. Whilst equivalent cognitive paradigms cause noticeable conflict via their behavioural and psychophysiological effects, the same may not necessarily be true for discordant emotion. The skin conductance (SCR) and heart rate (HR) of participants were measured during a classic Stroop task and one in which the emotions conveyed by lexico-semantic content and prosody were congruent or incongruent. Participants’ task was to identify the emotion conveyed by lexico-semantic content or prosody. No relationship was observed between HR and congruency. SCR was higher during incongruent conditions of the experimental task compared to congruent (ditto classic Stroop task), but no difference was observed when congruency effects during lexico-semantic emotion identification were compared to those during prosodic emotion identification. It is concluded that incongruence between lexico-semantic and prosodic emotion does cause notable cognitive conflict. Functional neuroanatomic implications are discussed.
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