Expression and recognition of speech emotional prosody: aspect of speakers-listeners individual features

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Event Abstract Back to Event Expression and recognition of speech emotional prosody: aspect of speakers-listeners individual features Elena Dmitrieva1*, Victor Gelman2, Kira Zaitseva1 and Alexandr Orlov1 1 Russian Academy of Science, Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, Russia 2 St-Petersburg Medical Academy of Postgraduate Studies, Russia Decoding nonverbal emotional expressions is an important part of speech communication and human behavior. Emotional intonation of a message may override its linguistic content. Although person-distinctive features of speech emotional perception have got some consideration few studies have aimed to specify how emotional prosody perception based on different speaker voices. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between speaker-distinctive features of emotional prosody production and listener-distinctive features of speech emotional valence recognition. The corpus of semantically neutral speech utterances of different emotional intonations (neutral, happy, angry) was created by method of emotions¢ simulating; spectral analysis was carried out. 12 speakers of 20-70 years old were both professional actors and non-actors. The sample of listeners consisted of 42 persons of the same age-range. The task was to recognize the emotional tone valence. The ANOVA of the data obtained on accuracy of recognition (AR) as dependent variable, and age and sex of subjects, set of acoustic and experimental parameters as independent ones revealed “type of emotion”, “sex of listeners” factors and “sex of listeners” * “age of listeners” interaction to be highly significant (p<0.01). The acoustic parameters’ values of each emotional intonation were compared to the corresponding values of neutral emotional intonation and differences were calculated. The direction of these deviations has been shown not to depend on linguistic content of speech utterance and its duration, on speaker´s age, gender and being actor or non-actor, though the personal features of the speakers have influenced the absolute values. The similar result was obtained for the AR: the personal features of the speakers have influenced the absolute values of recognition, but the directions of deviation from the AR of neutral intonation were the same for different speakers. Support by the RFH grant 07-06-00821a. Conference: 41st European Brain and Behaviour Society Meeting, Rhodes Island, Greece, 13 Sep - 18 Sep, 2009. Presentation Type: Poster Presentation Topic: Poster presentations Citation: Dmitrieva E, Gelman V, Zaitseva K and Orlov A (2009). Expression and recognition of speech emotional prosody: aspect of speakers-listeners individual features. Conference Abstract: 41st European Brain and Behaviour Society Meeting. doi: 10.3389/conf.neuro.08.2009.09.135 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. They are made available through the Frontiers publishing platform as a service to conference organizers and presenters. The copyright in the individual abstracts is owned by the author of each abstract or his/her employer unless otherwise stated. Each abstract, as well as the collection of abstracts, are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 (attribution) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and may thus be reproduced, translated, adapted and be the subject of derivative works provided the authors and Frontiers are attributed. For Frontiers’ terms and conditions please see https://www.frontiersin.org/legal/terms-and-conditions. Received: 09 Jun 2009; Published Online: 09 Jun 2009. * Correspondence: Elena Dmitrieva, Russian Academy of Science, Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, St. Petersburg, Russia, dmit49@mail.ru Login Required This action requires you to be registered with Frontiers and logged in. To register or login click here. Abstract Info Abstract The Authors in Frontiers Elena Dmitrieva Victor Gelman Kira Zaitseva Alexandr Orlov Google Elena Dmitrieva Victor Gelman Kira Zaitseva Alexandr Orlov Google Scholar Elena Dmitrieva Victor Gelman Kira Zaitseva Alexandr Orlov PubMed Elena Dmitrieva Victor Gelman Kira Zaitseva Alexandr Orlov Related Article in Frontiers Google Scholar PubMed Abstract Close Back to top Javascript is disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser settings in order to see all the content on this page.