Episodic-autobiographical memory (EAM) is considered to emerge gradually in concert with the development of other cognitive abilities (such as executive functions, personal semantic knowledge, emotional knowledge, theory of mind (ToM) functions, language, and working memory). On the brain level its emergence is accompanied by structural and functional reorganization of different components of t...

This paper is part of a larger study that examines crosslinguistic perception of sad and happy speech when the information is transmitted semantically (linguistic) or prosodically (affective). Here we examine American English and Japanese speakers’ ability to perceive emotions in Japanese utterances. It is expected that native subjects will be better at perceiving emotion expressed semantically...

Whole body expressions are among the main visual stimulus categories that are naturally associated with faces and the neuroscientific investigation of how body expressions are processed has entered the research agenda this last decade. Here we describe the stimulus set of whole body expressions termed bodily expressive action stimulus test (BEAST), and we provide validation data for use of thes...

OBJECTIVE Individuals with schizophrenia show severe deficits in their ability to decode emotions based upon vocal inflection (affective prosody). This study examined neural substrates of prosodic dysfunction in schizophrenia with voxelwise analysis of diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). METHOD Affective prosodic performance was assessed in 19 patients with schizophrenia and 19...

During communication, we perceive and express emotional information through many different channels, including facial expressions, prosody, body motion, and posture. Although historically the human body has been perceived primarily as a tool for actions, there is now increased understanding that the body is also an important medium for emotional expression. Indeed, research on emotional body la...

This paper deals with speech emotion analysis within the context of increasing awareness on wide application potential of affective computing. Unlike the most of works in the literature which mainly rely on classical frequency and energy based features along with a single global classifier for emotion recognition, we propose in this paper some new harmonic and Zipf based features for better spe...

alkaafi fel arooz-e-val ghavaafi written by khatib tabrizi is quite familiar for the students and researchers of the area of prosody and meter. khatib tabrizi is a sixth century scholar. the main characteristic of his age in writing books was to adapt from the texts and works of the predecessors and little use of creativity and innovation. considering the bibliography and the methodology of thi...

In this paper, we present a Message-toSpeech system for Natural Language Generation that is to be integrated in a dialogue system. As the system has to function in a very restrictive environment with respect to computational resources, a compromise between concept based and template based generation systems had to be found. Still, the approach aims at achieving linguistic flexibility for the ut...

Two primary sources of information are provided in human speech. On the one hand, the verbal channel encodes linguistic content, while on the other hand, the vocal channel transmits paralinguistic information, mainly through prosody. In line with several studies that induce a conflict between these two channels to better understand the role of prosody, we conducted an experiment in which subjec...

Abstract This study investigates whether the use of prosodic cues during instruction facilitates processing German accusative case markers. Two groups third semester L1 English learners L2 completed Processing Instruction (PI) with aural input: Learners in PI+P group heard sentences that included focused cues; PI monotone prosody. The effects training were assessed through an offline comprehens...