It is presented in the paper, a contribution to the field of human-machine interaction a system that has the ability to analyze emotional content of human movements, using as basis a technique known as Laban Movement Analysis. This work searches for computational approaches to quantify human qualities like emotion and expression and explores new functionalities towards implementation of more ad...

Recent data on prosodic features of emotional speech in German are reported. Ten sentences, spoken by actors in a happy, fearful, sad, bored, angry and a neutral way served as the basis of the analyses. The features under investigation are 1. different range parameters (differences between sentence accent peak, word accent peaks, minima between accent peaks and sentence final lowest F0), 2. the...

Older adults sometimes show a "positivity effect" in memory, remembering proportionally more positive information than younger adults. Using a modified Memory Characteristics Questionnaire, this study examined whether emotional valence impacts the phenomenological qualities of young and older adults' memories. Ageing did not impact the effect of valence on the qualities of high-arousal memories...

Perceptual processing of emotional facial expressions occurs very quickly, even without awareness. To determine whether the fast processing of facial expressions is categorical, we studied temporal characteristics of categorical perception (CP) of facial expressions. We investigated the effect of shortening stimulus duration on participant performance with respect to identifying and discriminat...

BACKGROUND In the studies of acceleration conducted so far a multidimensional perspective has largely been neglected. No attempt has been made to relate social-emotional characteristics of accelerated versus non-accelerated students in perspective of environmental factors. AIMS In this study, social-emotional characteristics of accelerated gifted students in the Netherlands were examined in r...

Validity of the emotional Stroop task hinges on equivalence between the emotion and the control words in terms of lexical features related to word recognition. The authors evaluated the lexical features of 1,033 words used in 32 published emotional Stroop studies. Emotion words were significantly lower in frequency of use, longer in length, and had smaller orthographic neighborhoods than words ...

Temporal and spatial characteristics of fixations are affected by image properties, including high-level scene characteristics, such as object-background composition, and low-level physical characteristics, such as image clarity. The influence of these factors is modulated by the emotional content of an image. Here, we aimed to establish whether brain correlates of fixations reflect these modul...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association between domain-specific qualities of formal childcare at age 2-3 years and children's task attentiveness and emotional regulation at age 4-5 and 6-7 years. STUDY DESIGN We used data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (n = 1038). Three domain-specific aspects of childcare quality were assessed: provider and program characteristics of care, a...