Affect recognition is a crucial requirement for future human machine interfaces to effectively respond to nonverbal behaviors of the user. Speech emotion recognition systems analyze acoustic features to deduce the speaker’s emotional state. However, human voice conveys a mixture of information including speaker, lexical, cultural, physiological and emotional traits. The presence of these commun...

Emotional of emotions in intelligence-the "accurate appraisal and expres-oneself and others and the regulation of emotion in a way that enhances living" (Mayer, DiPaolo, & Salovey, 1990, p. 772)-encompasses a set of interrelated skills and processes. Because the face is the primary canvas used to express distinct emotions nonverbally (Ekrnan, 1965), the ability to read facial expressions is par...

In this paper, we explore two sides to expressive speech synthesis. The first is the identification and simulation of different speakers, the second is the synthesis of emotional speech. The two are then combined, generating expressive characters that provide emotional spoken language. All of this is done within the context of fairy tales, as this is expected to be a particularly suited domain.

Accumulating research suggests that psychopathy can be disaggregated into low-anxious primary and high-anxious secondary variants, and this research may be important for understanding antisocial youths with callous-unemotional traits. Using model-based cluster analysis, the present study disaggregated 165 serious male adolescent offenders (M age = 16) with high scores on the Youth Psychopathic ...

Episodic memory deficits are predominately the first cognitive impairment in Alzheimer disease (AD). Previous studies have demonstrated that these deficits are specifically linked to autonoetic consciousness impairment, whereas noetic consciousness remains preserved in AD. This study focused on the self-reference effect and examined emotional valence, as it has been shown that emotional content...