This study investigates pitch range variation in the affective speech of bilingual and monolingual children. Cross-linguistic differences in affective speech may lead bilingual children to express emotions differently in their two different languages. A cross-linguistically comparable corpus of 6 bilingual ScottishFrench children and 12 monolingual peers was recorded according to the developed ...

Decision making is commonly conceived to reflect the interplay of mutually antagonistic systems: executive processes must inhibit affective information to make adaptive choices. Consistent with this interpretation, prior studies have shown that the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) is activated by executive processing and deactivated during emotional processing, with the reverse pattern fo...

introduction automatic human emotion recognition is one of the most interesting topics in the field of affective computing. however, development of a reliable approach with a reasonable recognition rate is a challenging task. the main objective of the present study was to propose a robust method for discrimination of emotional responses thorough examination of heart rate variability (hrv). in t...

Selecting appropriate stimuli to induce emotional states is essential in affective research. Only a few standardized affective stimulus databases have been created for auditory, language, and visual materials. Numerous studies have extensively employed these databases using both behavioral and neuroimaging methods. However, some limitations of the existing databases have recently been reported,...

This article reviews the author's program of research on the neural substrates of emotion and affective style and their behavioral and peripheral biological correlates. Two core dimensions along which affect is organized are approach and withdrawal. Some of the key circuitry underlying approach and withdrawal components of emotion is reviewed with an emphasis on the role played by different sec...

In this paper, we discuss scripting tools that aim at facilitating the design of web-based interactions with animated characters capable of affective communication. Specifically, two systems are developed. The SCREAM system is a scripting tool that enables authors to create emotionally and socially appropriate responses of animated characters. Content authors may design the mental make-up of a ...

Video affective content analysis is a fascinating but seldom addressed field in entertainment computing research communities. To recognize affective content in video, a video affective content representation and recognition framework based on Video Affective Tree (VAT) and Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) was proposed. The proposed video affective content recognizer has good potential to recognize t...

One of the greatest challenges in current humancomputer interaction research is the development of natural and affective interfaces. We present personality modelling as the inference of emotion and affect parameters, used by the dialogue management and user interaction components of a robot architecture. We discuss in detail the personality representation and inference aspects of the architectu...

Artificial recharge can be an effective method to raise the groundwater table and to resolve the groundwater crisis in Sefid dasht plain. The most important step to successful accomplishment of artificial recharge is locating suitable areas for artificial recharge. Hence this research carried out with purpose of determining suitable areas for artificial recharge in Sefid dasht plain. Slope, sur...