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Cederqvist, Jenni, and Therése Karlsson. "Relationen mellan perception av prosodi och perception av tonglidning : En jämförande studie mellan normalhörande och personer med hörselnedsättning." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för klinisk och experimentell medicin, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-105525.
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Prosodi utgörs bland annat av variationer i tonhöjd, så kallade tonglidningar. Dessa tonglidningar förmedlar såväl språkligt som emotionellt innehåll i talet. Förmågan att uppfatta skillnader i tonhöjd kallas frekvensdiskriminering. Eftersom denna förmåga kan påverkas negativt av en sensorineural hörselskada är det tänkbart att hörselskadan även kan påverka perceptionen av prosodi. Syftet med studien var att undersöka om det finns ett samband mellan perception av tonglidningar och perception av prosodi samt om det finns en skillnad i dessa förmågor hos normalhörande respektive personer med en hörselnedsättning. I studien ingick två grupper, en inkluderade elva deltagare med normal hörsel och den andra åtta deltagare med en hörselnedsättning. Deltagarna fick genomföra sex test som undersökte perception av tal i brus, tonglidning i a-ljud respektive ord, ordaccent samt emotionell prosodi. De fick även fylla i en enkät om hur de upplevde sin hörsel och perception av emotionell prosodi. Normalhörande presterade bättre på samtliga test och det fanns en statistiskt signifikant skillnad mellan grupperna för fem av sex test. Resultatet visade att det fanns ett samband mellan tonglidning och emotionell prosodi framför allt när det gäller tonglidning i ord. Detta indikerar att personer med en nedsatt frekvensdiskrimineringsförmåga också har en nedsatt förmåga att uppfatta emotionella nyanser i tal. Sambandet mellan förmågan att uppfatta emotionell prosodi och grad av hörselnedsättning var dock starkare. Med en nedsatt förmåga att uppfatta emotionell prosodi ökar risken för missförstånd vid verbal kommunikation. Vidare studier behövs dock för att säkerställa resultaten.
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Johansson, Inga-Lena. "Emotionell prosodi efter högersidig cerebral stroke : Akustisk analys samt skattning av röstens uttrycksfullhet." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för klinisk och experimentell medicin, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-118003.
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Viktiga aspekter av kommunikationen styrs från höger hjärnhalva, däribland emotionell prosodi. Forskningen inom detta område har dock hittills varit ganska begränsad. En aspekt, som inte undersökts än, är jämförelse av deltagarens egen och lyssnares skattning av röstens uttrycksfullhet. Syftet med studien vara att undersöka förmågan att uttrycka emotionell prosodi efter stroke i höger hemisfär. Deltagare var tre patienter med stroke i höger hemisfär samt tre kontrollpersoner utan neurologisk sjukdom/skada eller problem med tal eller röst. Sammansättningen i grupperna av deltagare med stroke respektive kontrollpersoner var likvärdig avseende kön, ålder, dialektområde och utbildningsnivå. Emotionell prosodi undersöktes genom flera metoder: akustisk analys av grundtonsvariation samt deltagarnas egen såväl som lyssnares skattning av röstens uttrycksfullhet. I resultaten framkommer tendenser, som indikerar en skillnad mellan deltagarna med stroke i höger hemisfär och kontrollpersonerna. För deltagarna med stroke sågs mindre grundtonsvariation och lägre skattningar av röstens uttrycksfullhet. Då deltagarantalet var litet, bör resultaten tolkas med försiktighet. De tendenser till skillnader mellan försöks- och kontrollpersonerna som ses i resultaten motiverar dock för vidare studier.Important aspects of communication, including emotional prosody, are regulated from the right hemisphere. However, the research in the area of emotional prosody has so far been rather limited. One of the aspects that have not been examined yet is the comparison of the participant’s own rating of voice expression with ratings by listeners. The aim of the study was to assess expressive emotional prosody after right-hemisphere stroke. Participants were three patients with right-hemisphere stroke and three controls without neurological conditions or problems regarding speech or voice. The groups of participants with stroke and the controls were matched regarding sex, age, dialect and level of education. Emotional prosody was examined using multiple methods: acoustic analysis of variation in fundamental frequency and the participants’ own as well as listeners’ rating of voice expression. The results show tendencies that indicate a difference between the participants with right-hemisphere stroke and the controls. The participants with stroke showed smaller variations in fundamental frequency and lower ratings of voice expression. Due to the small sample size in the present study, results should be treated with caution. However, the tendencies shown in the results regarding differences between subjects and controls would justify further studies.
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Guseinova, Fatima. "Kartläggning av KVINNA och MAN i August Strindbergs verk : En korpusstudie av sammansatta substantiv och kollokationer med ett diakront perspektiv." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för lingvistik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-157535.
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Diskursprosodi och semantisk preferens är inneboende aspekter i språk, då inget ord existerar som en isolerad enhet så snart det är en del av en text. Syftet med denna studie var att kvantitativt undersöka August Strindbergs bruk av orden ’kvinna’ och ’man’. Materialet som låg till grund för studien utgjordes av trilogin Röda Rummet, Götiska Rummen och Svarta Fanor. För att göra det undersöktes ordens förekomst med avseende på frekvens, grad av emotionell laddning i sammansättningar, och distribution av lexikaliserade sammansättningar. Därutöver undersöktes kontexten för lemman kvinna och man, genom en kartläggning av diskursprosodi och semantisk preferens för kollokationerna för kvinna och man. Syftet var att kartlägga detta ur ett diakront perspektiv. Resultaten visade att män omtalas, i lemmaform, i större utsträckning än kvinnor i trilogin. Sammansättningar för man är oftast lexikaliserade, medan de för kvinna är det mycket mer sällan. Kvinnor färgas oftare negativt i sammansättningar med kvinna medan motsvarigheten för män nästan alltid är neutral i sin emotionella laddning. Kollokationsanalysen kunde inte säkert visa på Strindbergs attityder gentemot kvinnor och män. Mer data och djupare analysmetoder skulle behövas för en kartläggning av författarens attityd.Discourse prosody and semantic preference are inherent aspects of language. As soon as a word becomes part of text, it seizes to exist as an isolated unit. The aim of this thesis was to study quantitatively the use of the lemmas woman and man, and the compound nouns containing them, in the works of August Strindberg. The material used consists of his novels The Red Room, Gothic Rooms and Black Banners. The occurrence of the two lemmas was observed with respect to frequency, the degree of emotional weight in compounds and the distribution of lexicalized compounds between women and men. Additionally, the context of lemmas was observed diachronically, through an analysis of discourse prosody and semantic preference of the collocations for woman and man. The results showed that the lemma man is mentioned more often than woman. Most compounds for man are lexicalized, while the opposite pertains to women. Compounds containing woman are more often negatively charged. Meanwhile, compounds containing man are predominantly neutral. The analysis of collocations for the lemmas was not able to map the author’s attitude accurately and more data and deeper methods of analysis are needed.
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Ferreira, Beatriz Bordalo Leal Campos. "Compreensão da prosódia emocional em indivíduos com doença de Parkinson." Bachelor's thesis, [s.n.], 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10284/4053.
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Projeto de Graduação apresentado à Universidade Fernando Pessoa como parte dos requisitos para obtenção do grau de Licenciada em Terapêutica da FalaA Doença de Parkinson é uma doença neurológica degenerativa (Barbosa & Sallem, 2005; Lana et al., 2007) caracterizada por distúrbios motores e por alterações não motoras. Pessoas com esta doença revelam dificuldades na compreensão da prosódia emocional, pelo que o presente estudo teve como objetivo verificar se os participantes (indivíduos com Doença de Parkinson) apresentam dificuldades no reconhecimento de emoções através da prosódia. Para a elaboração deste estudo, foram selecionadas as emoções raiva, alegria, tristeza, surpresa, desdém e medo. Para esse efeito, foi pedido a 12 participantes com Doença de Parkinson que ouvissem duas frases, uma com palavras reais e uma com pseudo-palavras, 12 vezes, representando cada uma das emoções, e que identificassem a emoção presente. Foi também pedido a adultos e jovens sem Doença de Parkinson, que realizassem o mesmo procedimento. Para tal, foram utilizados como materiais o programa Logic 5, microfone, colunas, computador e hipóteses de resposta. Foi possível observar que o grupo com Doença de Parkinson revelou uma performance significativamente inferior à dos restantes grupos, o que pode ter sido devido ao fator idade, e não apenas às consequências da Doença de Parkinson. Parkinson’s disease is a neurological and degenerative disease (Barbosa & Sallem, 2005; Lana et al., 2007) characterized by motor and non-motor disorders. Individuals who suffer from this disease reveal difficulties in the recognition of emotional prosody, whereby the goal of this study was to access if the participants (people with Parkinson’s disease) have difficulties in the recognition of emotional prosody. The selected emotions were anger, happiness, sadness, surprise, disgust and fear. For that matter, 12 individuals with Parkinson’s disease were asked to listen to two sentences, one with real words and the other one with non-words, representing the emotions chosen, and to identify the emotion present in each sentence. Other individuals were asked to do the same procedure (12 adults and 12 juveniles). The materials used were the program Logic 5, microphone, columns, computer and the possible answers. In conclusion, the Parkinson’s Disease group performed worse than the control groups, which may be due to age, and not to the Parkinson’s Disease itself.
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Alba-Ferrara, Lucia Monserrat. "Emotional prosody processing in the schizophrenia spectrum." Thesis, Durham University, 2011. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/3185/.
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THESIS ABSTRACT Emotional prosody processing impairment is proposed to be a main contributing factor for the formation of auditory verbal hallucinations in patients with schizophrenia. In order to evaluate such assumption, five experiments in healthy, highly schizotypal and schizophrenia populations are presented. The first part of the thesis seeks to reveal the neural underpinnings of emotional prosody comprehension (EPC) in a non-clinical population as well as the modulation of prosodic abilities by hallucination traits. By revealing the brain representation of EPC, an overlap at the neural level between EPC and auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) was strongly suggested. By assessing the influence of hallucinatory traits on EPC abilities, a continuum in the schizophrenia spectrum in which high schizotypal population mirrors the neurocognitive profile of schizophrenia patients was established. Moreover, by studying the relation between AVH and EPC in non-clinical population, potential confounding effects of medication influencing the findings were minimized. The second part of the thesis assessed two EPC related abilities in schizophrenia patients with and without hallucinations. Firstly, voice identity recognition, a skill which relies on the analysis of some of the same acoustical features as EPC, has been evaluated in patients and controls. Finally, the last study presented in the current thesis, assessed the influence that implicit processing of emotional prosody has on selective attention in patients and controls. Both patients studies demonstrate that voice identity recognition deficits as well as abnormal modulation of selective attention by implicit emotion prosody are related to hallucinations exclusively and not to schizophrenia in general. In the final discussion, a model in which EPC deficits are a crucial factor in the formation of AVH is evaluated. Experimental findings presented in the previous chapters strongly suggests that the perception of prosodic features is impaired in patients with AVH, resulting in aberrant perception of irrelevant auditory objects with emotional prosody salience which captures the attention of the hearer and which sources (speaker identity) cannot be recognized. Such impairments may be due to structural and functional abnormalities in a network which comprises the superior temporal gyrus as a central element.
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Quénette, Guy. "Se représenter les émotions du personnage du récit : contributions méthodologiques chez l’enfant âgé de huit à dix ans et perspectives interculturelles." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017MON30042/document.
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La présente thèse examine la capacité des enfants âgés de huit à dix ans à produire des inférences sur l’état émotionnel du protagoniste au moment même où ils découvrent l’histoire (i.e., évaluation en temps réel). Quatre objectifs sont visés. Premièrement, la question de la spécificité des inférences émotionnelles produites est posée et appréhendée à partir de deux types de tâches déjà utilisées et validées chez l’adulte, à savoir une tâche de complètement et une tâche de choix multiples. Pour la tâche de complètement, les enfants sont invités à désigner par écrit l’émotion que pourrait ressentir le personnage à ce moment précis de l’histoire alors que pour la tâche de choix multiples ils doivent sélectionner parmi une liste d’émotions celle qui correspond le mieux à la situation décrite. Deuxièmement, outre les apports méthodologiques retirés de la comparaison de ces deux tâches, cette thèse interroge le développement des connaissances émotionnelles en explorant tant leur maîtrise des émotions de base que des émotions sociales. Troisièmement, s’agissant d’étudier les inférences émotionnelles élaborées en situation d’écoute d’histoires, l’expressivité du narrateur est considérée avec l’idée qu’une prosodie marquée pourrait favoriser l’identification des émotions du personnage. Enfin, dans l’optique d’ouvrir ce travail à une comparaison interculturelle, la capacité des enfants à inférer l’émotion du personnage à partir de textes de littérature jeunesse a été envisagée tant en France qu’à l’Ile Maurice. Au regard de ces différents objectifs, les retombées des études menées sont de deux ordres : méthodologique et théorique. La présente thèse permet ainsi d’alimenter la réflexion tant du point de vue des connaissances scientifiques actuellement disponibles sur ce sujet dans le domaine de la psychologie que du point de vue des pratiques pédagogiques à privilégier dans le domaine de l’éducationThis thesis examines the ability of children aged eight to ten years to produce inferences about the emotional state of the protagonist while they discover the story (i.e., online evaluation). Four main objectives have to be distinguished. First, the specificity of the emotional inferences children produced is examined through two types of tasks already used and validated in adults, namely a completion task and a multiple-choice task. Regarding the completion task, children are invited to write down the emotion the character is supposed to feel at this moment of the story. For the multiple-choice task, they have to select from a list of emotional labels the one that best fits the situation described. Secondly, this thesis provides a relevant framework to assess the development of children’s emotional knowledge by considering their ability to infer both basic emotions and social emotions. Thirdly, our purpose is to highlight that the expressivity of the narrator can be of help in inferring the character’s emotions. Finally, in order to open this work to an intercultural comparison, children’s ability to infer the emotion of the character has been considered both in France and in Mauritius. In view of these different objectives, the series of studies we carried address both methodological and theoretical issues. Overall, the present thesis provides additional data to the current state of knowledge in psychology about children’s ability to represent the character’s emotional state and underlines related pedagogical contributions to reinforce practices in the field of education
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Welding, Carlotta [Verfasser]. "Emotionale Prosodie und Alexithymie : Produktion und Rezeption von emotionaler Prosodie bei hoch- und niedrig-alexithymen Sprechern / Carlotta Welding." Berlin : Freie Universität Berlin, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1218076224/34.
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Jacobs, Bryan. "Coloring regret: emotional prosody as a metaphor for musical composition." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=18765.
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Coloring Regret is a musical composition written for 21 musicians, one sound technician, and electronics. This essay is an analysis and description of the compositional tools and methods developed during the compositional process. The piece attempts to explore a relationship between emotional expression in the human voice and emotional expression in music. The inspiration for this work came from current research in emotional prosody which suggests that there are identifiable components to human speech that allow listeners to accurately interpret a speaker's emotional state. Audio files in which actors portray outbursts of emotional energy were analyzed and categorized, then later transcribed for acoustic instruments. An omni-present lament motive suggested a specific path through a previously developed harmonic “gravity” system. The final composition implies a journey from the “Vocal Sound Object World”- with a dramatic vocal, textural, and naturalistic electronic component – to the “Traditional Pitch and Rhythm-based World” dominated by clear rhythms, timbres, and pitches.Coloring Regret est une composition musicale écrite pour 21 musiciens, un technicien du son et électronique. Cet essai est une analyse et description des outils et méthodes de composition développés pendant le processus compositionnel. La pièce tente d'explorer un rapport entre l'expression émotionnelle dans la voix humaine et l'expression émotionnelle en musique. Cette pièce à été inspirée par des recherches récentes en prosodie émotionnelle qui suggèrent que des composantes identifiables de la parole humaine permettent à un auditeur d'interpréter précisément l'état émotionnel d'un locuteur. Des fichiers audio dans lesquels des acteurs illustrent des débordements d'énergie émotionnelle ont été analysés et catégorisés, puis transcrits plus tard pour des instruments acoustiques. Un motif de lamentation omni-présent a suggéré un parcours spécifique à travers un système harmonique 'gravitationnel' développé auparavant. La composition finale implique un périple partant du -Monde des Objets Sonores Vocaux-, avec une composante électronique vocale, texturale et naturaliste dramatique, vers le -Monde Traditionnel du Rythme et des Hauteurs- dominé par des rythmes, timbres et hauteurs clairs.
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Lindqvist, Rasmus. "The effects of emotional prosody on perceived clarity in degraded speech." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för datavetenskap, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-178144.
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The ability to hear is important to communicate with other people. People suffering from hearing loss are more likely to also suffer from loneliness and depression (Mener et al., 2013; Mo et al., 2005). To understand how degraded speech is recognized, the pop-out effect has been studied. The pop-out effect is the moment when a listener recognizes the meaning of degraded speech. Previous research on the pop-out effect in perception of speech has predominantly been focused towards top-down processes, such as form-based priming and semantic coherence in sentences. The purpose of this study was to research the relationship between emotional prosody and the perception of speech in varying levels of degraded speech. The participants were presented sentences with angry, neutral or happy prosody in varying levels of noise vocoding. The participants were then asked to rate the perceived amount of noise for each sentence, and if the prosody was perceived as positive, neutral or negative for each sentence. The results suggest that the participants' ability to perceive positive prosody in the sentences decreased more rapidly than negative as the amount of noise increased. The result did not show any statistically significant evidence that emotional prosody had any effect on the perceived amount of noise. Future research should further investigate emotional prosody together with emotional semantics, as an emotionally coherent spoken sentence, and the influences on speech perception in adverse listening conditions, in order to further investigate the factors contributing to the pop-out effect.
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Witte, Erik. "A Dichotic Test of Pitch Induced Lexical and Emotional Language Prosody." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för hälsovetenskap och medicin, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-29983.
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Buxtorf, Karin Rebecca. "The influence of emotion clarity on emotional prosody identification in paranoid schizophrenia /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2009. http://www.ub.unibe.ch/content/bibliotheken_sammlungen/sondersammlungen/dissen_bestellformular/index_ger.html.
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Cornew, Lauren A. "Emotion processing in the auditory modality the time course and development of emotional prosody recognition /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3330854.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2008.Title from first page of PDF file (viewed December 11, 2008). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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Dara, Chinar. "The influence of pitch and speech rate on emotional prosody recognition: psychological and neuro-cognitive perspectives." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=96951.
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Speech prosody is an essential aspect of human communication and vital to determine the emotional state of the speaker. Multiple acoustic cues are harnessed to infer emotional meaning from prosody, from which pitch and speech rate have been shown to be extremely important and reliable predictors to make emotion judgments. A comprehensive understanding of the underlying mechanisms involved in decoding pitch and speech rate cues is still underway. To have a complete understanding of the processing of prosodic cues, the current thesis addressed this issue from multiple levels – psychological and neuro-cognitive. The first experiment investigated how listeners combine information from the two critical cues – pitch and speech rate – for emotion recognition. The two cues were systematically manipulated in a factorial manner in pseudo-language-like utterances spoken in different emotional tones. The findings of this experiment demonstrated that pitch and speech rate are important parameters for accurate emotion recognition; however, the relative weight of the two cues is distinct for each emotion. Therefore, listeners harness the two cues differently for each emotion and it varies depending on the acoustic properties of each emotion. The second experiment explored the role of the two hemispheres in the brain in decoding pitch and speech rate to make emotion inferences. To this end, the ability of individuals with lesions to either the right or left hemisphere was compared to age-matched healthy participants in evaluating emotion information from the same two cues. Greater difficulty experienced by the right-hemisphere-damaged patients provides evidence for right hemisphere specialization in extracting acoustic properties for emotion recognition. In a third experiment, tasks from Experiment 2 were presented to healthy adults in an fMRI paradigm to identify the specific neural structures engaged in processing pitch and speech rate cues. The results reinforce that extracting pitch cues to make emotion inferences requires greater contribution from the right superior temporal gyrus/sulcus (STG/STS); however, the data shows processing speech rate cues involves both right and left STG/STS region. In summary, the present thesis provides important information about the complex processing involved at psychological and neurocognitive levels in decoding physical properties of the speech for emotion recognition.La prosodie est un composant essentiel de la communication humaine qui est crucial pour déterminer l'état émotionnel du locuteur. Une multitude d'indices vocaux est captée pour extraire la signification émotionnelle des éléments prosodiques, dont la hauteur et le débit de la parole se sont révélés être des prédicteurs importants et fiables de l'état émotionnel du locuteur. À ce jour, on n'a pas encore réussi à élucider entièrement les mécanismes sous-jacents qui participent au décodage de la hauteur et du débit de la parole. La présente thèse se penche sur cette question à divers niveaux, soit aux niveaux psychologique et neurocognitif, afin d'élargir la compréhension du traitement des indices vocaux. Elle s'appuie sur trois expériences préalables : la première visant à étudier la façon dont les allocutaires combinent l'information diffusée par deux indices cruciaux, la hauteur et le débit de la parole, pour reconnaître l'émotion du locuteur, la deuxième visant à explorer le rôle des deux hémisphères cérébraux dans le décodage de la hauteur et du débit de la parole afin d'en tirer la signification émotionnelle et la troisième visant à identifier les structures neuronales précises qui participent au traitement de l'information extraite de la hauteur et du débit de la parole. Dans la première expérience, les deux indices ont été soumis à une manipulation factorielle systématique durant l'énonciation d'unités pseudolinguistiques émises selon divers états émotionnels. Les résultats obtenus ont permis de démontrer que la hauteur et le débit de la parole sont d'importants paramètres qui permettent d'interpréter la tonalité émotionnelle du discours avec exactitude. Le poids relatif de ces paramètres varie cependant selon l'émotion. Ainsi, les allocutaires interprètent ceux-ci différemment pour chaque émotion, et cette interprétation varie en fonction des propriétés acoustiques de l'émotion. Dans la seconde expérience, on a comparé la capacité à évaluer le contenu émotionnel de la hauteur et du débit de la parole de personnes présentant des lésions cérébrales situées soit dans l'hémisphère droit, soit dans l'hémisphère gauche du cerveau à celle de sujets sains du même âge. Les personnes ayant des lésions dans l'hémisphère droit du cerveau ont eu plus de difficulté à accomplir cette tâche, ce qui démontre que l'hémisphère droit est responsable de l'extraction des propriétés acoustiques qui permettent de reconnaître le contenu émotionnel du discours. Dans la troisième expérience, on a relié des adultes ne présentant aucune lésion au cerveau à un appareil d'IRM fonctionnelle et on leur a demandé d'accomplir les mêmes tâches que dans la deuxième expérience. Les résultats obtenus ont confirmé que l'extraction de l'information sur la tonalité émotionnelle du discours contenu dans la hauteur de la parole nécessite une plus grande participation du gyrus et du sulcus temporal supérieur droit. Cependant, les résultats montrent également que le traitement de la tonalité émotionnelle du discours contenu dans le débit de la parole fait appel aux gyri et aux sulci temporaux supérieurs droit et gauche. En résumé, le présent rapport de thèse fournit de l'information importante sur les mécanismes psychologiques et neurocognitifs complexes de traitement des propriétés physiques de la parole qui mènent à la reconnaissance de la tonalité émotionnelle du discours.
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Dondaine, Thibaut. "Approche neuropsychologique des troubles émotionnels dans la schizophrénie." Thesis, Rennes 1, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014REN1B008/document.
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Les troubles schizophréniques stabilisés s'accompagnent souvent de déficits cognitifs et émotionnels. Les plus récents travaux mettent en relation la cognition, la motivation et les émotions dans la présentation cliniques des troubles schizophréniques. L'objectif de ce travail est de décrire les troubles de la reconnaissance des émotions, du sentiment subjectif et des réactions physiologiques liées aux émotions dans les troubles schizophréniques stabilisés. L'influence des troubles cognitifs et de l'apathie sur les processus émotionnels est également explorée. Dans une première étude, nous avons mis en évidence l'introduction de biais dans la reconnaissance des émotions dans deux modalités sensorielles (visuelle et auditive).Dans l'étude suivante, nous nous sommes intéressés à l'influence des troubles des fonctions exécutives dans le sentiment subjectif des émotions. A l'aide d'extrait de films, nous avons montré qu'un trouble des fonctions exécutives pouvait entraîner l'introduction d'un ressenti émotionnel nuancé dans les troubles schizophréniques stabilisés. L'apathie est un trouble fréquent dans la schizophrénie et peut influencer les processus émotionnels. Dans un troisième travail, nous avons étudié l'impact de l'apathie sur les réactions physiologiques induites par les émotions. Nous avons montré que la sévérité de l'apathie était corrélée à une diminution de l'activité électrodermale lors de l'induction d'émotions positives. Les résultats de ces travaux montrent un impact des troubles cognitifs et motivationnels sur les processus émotionnels dans les troubles schizophréniques stabilisés. Ces travaux nous encouragent à explorer les bases cérébrales de l'interaction entre émotion et cognition dans la schizophrénie. Des applications cliniques sont également discutéesStabilized schizophrenia is characterized by cognitive and emotional deficits. Recent works adopted a dynamic view of the relationship between cognition; motivation and emotion in schizophrenia. The objective of this work was to describe the impairments of recognition; subjective feelings and physiological reactions related to emotions in stabilized schizophrenia. The influence of cognitive impairment and apathy on the emotional processes was also explored. In a first study on a group of 23 patients with schizophrenia; we highlighted the introduction of bias in the recognition of emotion in two sensory modalities (visual and auditory). In the next study; we investigated the influence of executive function disorders in the subjective feeling of emotions. With film excerpts; we showed that a disorder in executive functions could lead the introduction of a mixed subjective feeling in schizophrenia. Apathy is a common disorder in schizophrenia and may influence emotional processes. In a third study; we investigated the impact of apathy on physiological reactions induced by emotion. We have shown that the severity of apathy was correlated with a decrease in electrodermal activity during induction of positive emotions. The results of these studies show an impact of cognitive and motivational disturbances in emotional processes in stabilized schizophrenia. This work encourages us to explore the neural bases of the interaction between emotion and cognition in schizophrenia. Clinical applications are also discussed
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Van, Putten Steffany M. "The Production of Emotional Prosdy in Varying Severities of Apraxia of Speech." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2001. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/VanPuttenSM2001.pdf.
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Rowe, Trevor. "The Effect of Prosody on Preschool Children’s Emotional, Cognitive, and Behavioral-eye and Behavioral-body Engagement during Story Time." DigitalCommons@USU, 2016. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/5225.
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Many children have insufficient early literacy experiences and fail to obtain proficient emergent literacy before they enter kindergarten. Reading to young children has been positively linked to improving their emergent literacy. Numerous factors influence how engaged children are while being read to including the adult’s prosody, receptive vocabulary, and the home literacy environment. Using a quantitative quasiexperimental design, this study sought to understand the association among prosody, child engagement (emotional, cognitive, behavioral-eye, and behavioral-body), receptive vocabulary, and the home literacy environment. The sample included 76 3-5 year-old children from local child care centers and their parents. To understand the relationship between prosody and engagement, children were randomly assigned to watch a story with typical or high prosody. Emotional, cognitive, behavioral-eye, and behavioral-body engagement measures were used to understand how engaged children were in the story. Children’s receptive vocabulary was assessed, and parents completed a home literacy survey. The moderating effects of receptive vocabulary and the home literacy environment (i.e., how much time parents spent reading to children and children’s TV time) between prosody and each type of engagement was examined. Children’s engagement did not differ between typical and high prosody stories. A statistically significant relationship was found between the cognitive and behavioral-eye r(74) = .44, p < .01, cognitive and behavioral-body r(74) = .30, p < .01, and behavioral-eye and behavioral-body engagement measures r(74) = .72, p < .01. Receptive vocabulary and the home literacy environment did not moderate the relationship between story prosody and any type of engagement.
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Pell, Marc D. "An acoustic characterization of speech prosody in right-hemisphere-damaged patients : interactive effects of focus distribution, sentence modality, and emotional context." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ30358.pdf.
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Čermák, Jan. "Rozpoznávání emočních stavů na základě analýzy řečového signálu." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta elektrotechniky a komunikačních technologií, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-218162.
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The thesis is focused on the emotional states classification in the Matlab program, using neural networks and the classifier which is based on a combination of Gaussian density functions. It deals with the speech signal processing; the prosodic and spectral signs and the MFCC coefficients were extracted from the signal. The work also deals with the quality evaluation of individual signs of which the most suitable were chosen in order to provide the correct classification of emotional states. In order to identify the emotional states, two different methods were used. The first method of classification was the use of neural networks with differently selected parameters, and the second method was the use of the Gaussian mixture model (GMM). In both methods, a database of emotional utterances was divided into the training group and the test group. The testing was based on a method independent of the speaker. The work also includes the comparison of individual analyzed methods as well as the representation and comparison of the results. The conclusion comprises a proposition for the best parameters and the best classifier for the recognition of the speaker’s emotional state.
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Yu, C. (Changrong). "Emotional display in argument, storytelling and teasing:a multimodal analysis." Doctoral thesis, Oulun yliopisto, 2012. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789514298516.
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Abstract This dissertation studies emotional displays in talk-in-interaction, especially focusing on conversational argument, storytelling and teasing. The aim is to understand how verbal expressions, prosodic cues, and embodied actions interact with each other in emotional expression. The main analytic approach and methodology is conversation analysis and multimodal interaction analysis, applied to interactional sequences from everyday conversations. The research data comes from three different video recordings and their transcripts. First, the dissertation reveals two broad types of frustration in conversational argument. The findings suggest that combined verbal and nonverbal expression of frustration involves a complex interplay of prosodic cues and embodied actions. Nonverbal expression of frustration is displayed by embodied actions alone. Second, the dissertation shows how shared joy is conveyed between storytellers and recipients in storytelling. They can achieve shared joy because the recipients express willing participation and active recipiency in two main ways: they display verbal appreciation of the story, or they join in the storytelling through laughter, smiles, head nods, and gaze exchanges. The recipients may also offer summaries or interpretations of events in the story by comparing their own experiences to events in the story. Third, the dissertation analyzes playful teasing activity, showing how teasing activity can bring about a shared experience of amusement for both teasers and their “targets.” The study argues that recipients of teasing are active contributors in the social interaction. The transient embarrassment felt by the teased participants does not prevent the exchange from reaching a shared experience of amusementTiivistelmä Väitöskirja tutkii tunteiden osoittamista arkisissa keskustelutilanteissa ja erityisesti väittelyn, tarinankerronnan ja kiusoittelun kuluessa. Tutkimusmetodi on pääasiassa keskustelunanalyysi, jonka avulla tutkitaan, miten kielelliset ilmaukset, prosodiset vihjeet sekä keholliset toiminnot yhdessä tuottavat tunneilmauksia. Tutkimusaineiston muodostaa kolme videoitua keskustelua ja niiden litteraatiot. Tutkimus osoittaa arkikeskusteluissa esiintyvissä väittelyissä ilmenevän kahtalaista turhautumisen tyyppiä. Ensimmäisessä puhujat tuottavat rinnan kielellisiä ja ei-kielellisiä turhautumisen ilmauksia, toisessa turhautumista osoitetaan vain ei-kielellisin keinoin. Tuloksien mukaan edellisessä tyypissä prosodia ja keholliset toiminnot ovat monimutkaisessa vuorovaikutuksessa keskenään. Jälkimmäisessä tyypissä turhautumista ilmaistaan pelkästään keholla. Toiseksi väitöskirja osoittaa, miten jaettu ilon tunne syntyy puhujien ja vastaanottajien välisenä toimintana. Tarinankerronnassa saavutetaan ilon hetkiä, koska vastaanottajat ovat halukkaasti mukana kerronnassa ja osoittavat aktiivista vastaanottoa kahdella tavalla: he osoittavat arvostusta kertomusta kohtaan verbaalisin keinoin, tai he liittyvät kerrontaan mukaan nauramalla, hymyilemällä, nyökkäilemällä, vaihtamalla katseita keskenään, referoimalla ja tulkitsemalla kertojan aiempaa puhetta formulaatioillaan ja vertailemalla omia kokemuksiaan tarinan tilanteeseen. Kolmanneksi tutkimus analysoi leikkisää kiusoittelua, joka saadaan aikaan liioittelevilla kielellisillä ilmauksilla sekä liioittelevilla prosodisilla vihjeillä ja eleillä. Tutkimus näyttää, että kiusoittelun kohteet aktiivisesti myötävaikuttavat kiusoittelutoimintaan. He voivat olla siinä mukana liioittelevilla vastausvuoroilla, nauramalla tai toimimalla mukana pelkästään eleiden avulla. Empiirinen analyysi näyttää, että kiusoittelutoiminta tuottaa yhteisen huvittuneisuuden kokemuksen keskustelun kuluessa. Kiusoittelijan ja kiusoittelun kohteen kokema ohimenevä nolous tai kiusaantuneisuus ei estä tämän yhteisen huvittuneisuuden kokemuksen saavuttamista
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Drolet, Matthis [Verfasser], Julia [Akademischer Betreuer] Fischer, and Christiane [Akademischer Betreuer] Thiel. "Theory of Mind and Emotion Recognition : The Influence of Authenticity on the Perception of Emotional Prosody / Matthis Drolet. Gutachter: Julia Fischer ; Christiane Thiel. Betreuer: Julia Fischer." Göttingen : Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, 2013. http://d-nb.info/1044307749/34.
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Schwartz, Jay W. "The Novel Application of Emotional Contagion Theory to Black andMantled Howler Monkey (Alouatta pigra and A. palliata) Vocal Communication." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1429033201.
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Faulds, Susan Jane. "Turning the gaze into something that can be seen, handled and explored : an experimental approach to understanding the nursing gaze through the utterances and emotional prosody of expert and novice nurses." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2018. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/422639/.
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Articulating what nursing is and what nurses do, has been a challenge since the creation of the profession. This research draws on technology to solve the issue of revealing and investigating the tacit nature of nursing through the concept of the nursing gaze. Drawing on the visual attention of nurses, this two-phase experiment identified that the nursing gaze is complex but can be identified with eye tracking and verbal utterances. Both phases of the study utilised videos of simulated nursing practice that acted as the stimulus for viewing. The practical challenges of tracking eye movement and verbal utterances when stimulus is video was identified and led to the development of Gaze-to-Text to solve these. This novel method drew on ethnographic techniques to combine both eye movement and verbal utterances of novice identifying the tacit nature of the gaze. Concurrent eye tracking and recording of the viewers ‘think aloud’ commentaries led to the identification of eight verbal performative signifiers used by nurses to judge the behaviour and actions. Analysis of both novice and expert nurse’s eye movement demonstrated areas of convergence and divergence and when combined with the verbal utterances, allowed conclusions to be drawn about the cognitive and perceptive processes involved in the nursing gaze. The findings of the study have implications for developing novice nurses through the articulation of expert nurses gaze. The method of Gaze-to-text offers potential for understanding visual attention and the tacit elements of professionals in other fields.
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Becker, Theresa. "Evaluating Improvisation as a Technique for Training Pre-Service Teachers for Inclusive Classrooms." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5129.
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Improvisation is a construct that uses a set of minimal heuristic guidelines to create a highly flexible scaffold that fosters extemporaneous communication. Scholars from diverse domains: such as psychology, business, negotiation, and education have suggested its use as a method for preparing professionals to manage complexity and think on their feet. A review of the literature revealed that while there is substantial theoretical scholarship on using improvisation in diverse domains, little research has verified these assertions. This dissertation evaluated whether improvisation, a specific type of dramatic technique, was effective for training pre-service teachers in specific characteristics of teacher-child classroom interaction, communication and affective skills development. It measured the strength and direction of any potential changes such training might effect on pre-service teacher's self-efficacy for teaching and for implementing the communication skills common to improvisation and teaching while interacting with student in an inclusive classroom setting. A review of the literature on teacher self-efficacy and improvisation clarified and defined key terms, and illustrated relevant studies. This study utilized a mixed-method research design based on instructional design and development research. Matched pairs t-tests were used to analyze the self-efficacy and training skills survey data and pre-service teacher reflections and interview transcripts were used to triangulate the qualitative data. Results of the t-tests showed a significant difference in participants' self-efficacy for teaching measured before and after the improvisation training. A significant difference in means was also measured in participants' aptitude for improvisation strategies and for self-efficacy for their implementation pre-/post- training. Qualitative results from pre-service teacher class artifacts and interviews showed participants reported beneficial personal outcomes as well as confirmed using skills from the training while interacting with students. Many of the qualitative themes parallel individual question items on the teacher self-efficacy TSES scale as well as the improvisation self-efficacy scale CSAI. The self-reported changes in affective behavior such as increased self-confidence and ability to foster positive interaction with students are illustrative of changes in teacher agency. Self-reports of being able to better understand student perspectives demonstrate a change in participant ability to empathize with students. Participants who worked with both typically developing students as well as with students with disabilities reported utilizing improvisation strategies such as Yes, and…, mirroring emotions and body language, vocal prosody and establishing a narrative relationship to put the students at ease, establish a positive learning environment, encourage student contributions and foster teachable moments. The improvisation strategies showed specific benefit for participants working with nonverbal students or who had commutation difficulties, by providing the pre-service teachers with strategies for using body language, emotional mirroring, vocal prosody and acceptance to foster interaction and communication with the student. Results from this investigation appear to substantiate the benefit of using improvisation training as part of a pre-service teacher methods course for preparing teachers for inclusive elementary classrooms. Replication of the study is encouraged with teachers of differing populations to confirm and extend results.Ph.D.
Doctorate
Education and Human Performance
Education; Instructional Technology
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Lee, Shin-Yi, and 李欣怡. "The Perception of Emotional Prosody in Newborns." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/12426266379372027219.
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碩士國立陽明大學
腦科學研究所
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Emotional prosody has the ability to recognize the affective states of speaker and the intention of speaker, is based on different parameters of speech, such as fundamental frequency (F0), syllable duration, and voice intensity. General, the emotional prosody is important information including physical properties and socially relevant content. Understanding emotional prosody in speech is an important feature of human social life. The changes of prosodic features will affect the expression of emotional information. Previous ERPs researches have found that newborns were able to discriminate auditory stimuli such as frequency, intensity, or duration changes of sounds. However, so far, the studies on perception of emotional prosody in infancy are very rare. No ERP study investigating the perception of emotional prosody in newborns. We hypothesized that the early detection of emotional prosody would emerge in newborns. Thirty-eight full-term newborns (14 boys, gestational ages between 38–41 weeks) were tested 1–5 days after birth. We had infant newborns listen to syllables (i.e.,“dada”) female spoken with neutral, happy, and fearful prosody. The oddball sequence was composed of neutrally spoken syllables as standard (P = 0.80) and happily and fearfully spoken syllables as deviants (P = 0.10 each). There were 4–5 blocks of 200 stimuli each were presented to every newborn. The sensory processes underlying perception of emotional prosody in newborns, reflected by the auditory ERPs might elicit similar pattern of amplitudes as in adults. The amplitude of MMR are larger in fearful or happy prosodies than neutral prosody. The perception of emotional prosody might elicit gender difference at birth. The results showed that fearful relative to happy and neutral prosody elicited larger P-MMR amplitudes over the frontal area (F3 and F4). The happy prosody elicited larger amplitude than neutral prosody over right frontal (F4) and left central (C3) area. The results found for P-MMR response demonstrates that the newborns is able to preattentively detect emotional change in acoustic stimulation.
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Chang, Shih-Cheng, and 張仕承. "Emotional Voice Conversion Using Prosodic and Spectral Features." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/9yx887.
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In this thesis, conversion methods for three prosodic features (pitch contour, duration and intensity) are studied. Then, an emotional voice conversion system is constructed. A neutral input speech is converted to a speech of angry, happy or sad emotion. In the training stage, the F0 GMM and spectrum GMM models were trained for each of the three target emotions respectively by using the corresponding parallel corpus of 120 sentences. Based on sentence segmentation rules, the mean and standard deviation values of the prosodic features are measured across sentences for three segments respectively. Also, this measuring is performed for each target emotion’s training sentences respectively. In the conversion stage, the pitch contour and DCC coefficients of a neutral input speech are mapped to the pitch contour and DCC coefficients for a specified target emotion in terms of the corresponding F0 and spectrum GMM. When using F0 GMM to convert pitch contour, we find that the obtained pitch contour is of fluctuations. Therefore, we study to reduce the fluctuations with median smoothing and moving average processing. Next, by using segmental tables of statistical parameters obtained in the training stage, the three prosodic features (pitch contour, duration, and intensity) are converted with the method, segmental standard deviation matching (SSDM). To let the emotion expressed in the converted speech more close to the target emotion, we propose a dynamic speech duration adjusting method. The duration of a frame is dynamically determined according to its energy ratio. To evaluate the performance of our emotional voice conversion system, we had conducted two subjective listening tests. The first test is to compare the emotional expressions of two converted speeches by two conversion methods. The percentages of the votes obtained by our method are 95% for angry emotion, 65% for happy emotion, and 67.5% for sad emotion. As to the second test, each participant is requested to recognize the emotion expressed in the speech played to him. The results show that the recognition rates obtained by our conversion method are 87.5% for angry emotion, 61.3% for happy emotion, and 77.5% for sad emotion. Therefore, the emotional voice conversion system using the studied conversion method is effective in converting a neutral speech to a speech of a specified target emotion.
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Gomes, Rui Pedro de Sousa. "Emotional prosody subprocesses: no ERP evidence for interactivity." Dissertação, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/129364.
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O reconhecimento de emoções na voz contempla vários subprocessos, como o
processamento sensorial, a integração percetual, a extração do significado emocional e a
avaliação cognitiva. Ainda se desconhece se estes subprocessos se influenciam mutuamente
(interatividade) ou, pelo contrário, se são independentes (modularidade). Para responder a
esta questão, foram analisados os correlatos EEG de violações do contorno tonal (índice de
integração percetual), de violações de congruência lexical-prosódica (índice de avaliação
cognitiva), e de ambas as violações combinadas: em três blocos experimentais distintos, os
participantes ouviram palavras emocionais ditas com o contorno tonal intacto vs. deformado,
com congruência lexical-prosódica vs. incongruência (por exemplo, uma palavra negativa
dita com prosódia positiva), e com o contorno tonal intacto e congruente vs. deformado e
incongruente, enquanto executavam tarefas não relacionadas à prosódia. Violações do
contorno tonal provocaram uma negatividade central-posterior, com pico por volta dos 170
ms, e incongruências lexicais-prosódicas provocaram uma positividade generalizada entre
190 e 560 ms e uma positividade anterior entre 610 e 740 ms. Quando comparadas as
respostas EEG a violações individuais com as correspondentes a violações combinadas
(violações simultâneas de contorno tonal e de congruência lexical-prosódica), não se
encontraram diferenças significativas, sugerindo que a integração percetual e a avaliação
cognitiva poderão ser processos modulares. Em linha com o mencionado, a sofisticação
musical dos participantes correlacionou-se significativamente com a avaliação cognitiva,
mas não com a integração percetual.
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Gomes, Rui Pedro de Sousa. "Emotional prosody subprocesses: no ERP evidence for interactivity." Master's thesis, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/129364.
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O reconhecimento de emoções na voz contempla vários subprocessos, como o
processamento sensorial, a integração percetual, a extração do significado emocional e a
avaliação cognitiva. Ainda se desconhece se estes subprocessos se influenciam mutuamente
(interatividade) ou, pelo contrário, se são independentes (modularidade). Para responder a
esta questão, foram analisados os correlatos EEG de violações do contorno tonal (índice de
integração percetual), de violações de congruência lexical-prosódica (índice de avaliação
cognitiva), e de ambas as violações combinadas: em três blocos experimentais distintos, os
participantes ouviram palavras emocionais ditas com o contorno tonal intacto vs. deformado,
com congruência lexical-prosódica vs. incongruência (por exemplo, uma palavra negativa
dita com prosódia positiva), e com o contorno tonal intacto e congruente vs. deformado e
incongruente, enquanto executavam tarefas não relacionadas à prosódia. Violações do
contorno tonal provocaram uma negatividade central-posterior, com pico por volta dos 170
ms, e incongruências lexicais-prosódicas provocaram uma positividade generalizada entre
190 e 560 ms e uma positividade anterior entre 610 e 740 ms. Quando comparadas as
respostas EEG a violações individuais com as correspondentes a violações combinadas
(violações simultâneas de contorno tonal e de congruência lexical-prosódica), não se
encontraram diferenças significativas, sugerindo que a integração percetual e a avaliação
cognitiva poderão ser processos modulares. Em linha com o mencionado, a sofisticação
musical dos participantes correlacionou-se significativamente com a avaliação cognitiva,
mas não com a integração percetual.
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"An ERP study on emotional prosody among Cantonese speakers." 2003. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5891556.
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Ming Lui.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2003.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 44-53).
Abstracts in English and Chinese.
Introduction --- p.6-22
Method --- p.23-30
Results --- p.31-34
Discussion --- p.35-42
References --- p.43-51
Tables --- p.52-55
Figure Caption --- p.56
Figures --- p.57-62
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Arsic, Milan [Verfasser]. "Electrophysiology of emotional prosody production and perception / by Milan Arsic." 2008. http://d-nb.info/993121306/34.
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Correia, Ana Isabel Costa. "Brain structure correlates of emotional speech prosody recognition in children." Dissertação, 2016. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/86471.
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Correia, Ana Isabel Costa. "Brain structure correlates of emotional speech prosody recognition in children." Master's thesis, 2016. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/86471.
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Wang, Jia-En, and 王加恩. "Emotional Prosody Perception and Intervention in Preschoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorder." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/25759855920304317652.
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博士國立臺灣大學
心理學研究所
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Emotional prosody perception is essential for social communication, but it is still an open issue whether children with high-function autism (HFA) exhibit any prosodic perception deficits. Further, the early intervention program for HFA preschool children with emphasis on emotional prosody perception was very rare. Study 1 investigated whether emotional prosody perception for words and sentences in HFA children (n = 72, 5–12 years of age) differed from age-matched, typically-developing children (TD, n = 70) when presented with an emotional prosody identification task. Results show that HFA preschoolers performed poorly in identifying all emotional prosody (including happy, sad and angry) from both emotionally-neutral and -relevant utterances. Additionally, the HFA school-aged children performed poorer than TD children only in perceiving happy prosody. Results of correlation analyses revealed a positive association between prosody identification, autism symptom severity, pragmatic function and social adaption. The findings indicate that preschool-aged children with HFA experience significant difficulties in recognizing happy, sad and angry, and this prosodic perception limitation is only shown to happy prosody in older HFA children. Therefore, administered an early intervention program for HFA preschoolers to facilitate their emotional prosody perception is meaningful and mandatory. Study 2 developed an “Emotional Prosody Intervention Program, EPIP” which was based on Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT) which encouraged motivation and embedded into a social skill training group. The participants of the EPIP were preschool children with HFA (n =12, mean age = 73.58 months) and were divided in two groups. The results showed that emotional prosody perception in the intervention group (Group1) improved significantly than a control group (Group 2) after EPIP intervention. In addition, emotional prosody perception was significant increasing in both groups 1 and 2 after EPIP. Moreover, the intervention effect was generalized to perceive emotional prosody of untrained stimuli. Follow-ups at one and three months showed that the intervention benefits were preserved and the perceptual performance of HFA preschoolers was similar to that of TD children. In addition, emotion and attention problems, such as, depression, anxiety and inattention/hyperactivity, were significantly reduced in HFA children; the social spontaneity, happiness, and play interaction were significantly improved after six-month social skill training group therapy. In conclusion, the EPIP facilitated preschoolers with HFA to recognize emotional prosody. EPIP is an effective and feasible approach for conducting early intervention with HFA children.
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Matos, Vera Lúcia Oliveira. "Affective Norms for semantic content and prosody of European Portuguese Sentences: combining categorical and dimensional approaches." Master's thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/32956.
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Dissertação de mestrado integrado em PsicologiaThe capacity to decode the affective state of others is crucial to our social interactions (Carton, Kessler, & Pape, 1999). We can use several cues to decode emotional information from others, such as facial expression, gestures, body postures, semantic content of the speech and emotional prosody. However, scientific research has mostly focused on the visual modality rather than on the auditory (Scherer, Johnstone, & Klasmeyer, 2003). To respond to the lack of well validated auditory stimuli and to promote research on auditory emotional processing, we validated the semantic content and emotional prosody of a set of European Portuguese sentences. Participants were asked to rate the sentences in three dimensions (valence, arousal, and dominance) and their intensity in each of six categories (happiness, sadness, anger, fear, disgust, and neutral). By combining these dimensional and categorical ratings, this study provide a very complete tool for emotional prosody assessment in an European Portuguese setting, which can be used in experimental research and applied to clinical contexts.
A capacidade de descodificar o estado emocional dos outros é crucial nas nossas interações sociais (Carton et al., 1999). Para perceber o estado emocional dos outros podemos recolher pistas de diferentes fontes de informação, como: das expressões faciais, dos gestos, da postura corporal, do conteúdo do discurso e da prosódia emocional. No entanto, a investigação sobre o processamento emocional realizada até o momento tem estado maioritariamente focada na modalidade visual em comparação com a auditiva (Scherer, Johnstone, & Klasmeyer, 2003). De forma a responder à falta de estímulos auditivos devidamente validados e para impulsionar a investigação do processamento emocional auditivo este estudo teve como principal objetivo validar o conteúdo semântico e a prosódia emocional de um conjunto de frases. Para isso, os participantes avaliaram as frases de acordo com as perspectivas dimensional (avaliando valência, arousal e dominância) e categorial (avaliando a intensidade de raiva, nojo, medo, tristeza, alegria e neutralidade que cada frase transmite). Assim, este estudo fornece um conjunto de frases validadas para o contexto português que constituem uma ferramenta de avaliação completa e adequada à aplicação experimental bem como à clínica.
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) - Project “Electrophysiological investigation of auditory affective processing in schizophrenia and its relationship with selfmonitoring : a window into auditory hallucinations?” (PTDC/PSI-PCL/116626/2010)
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Van, Putten Steffany M. "The production of emotional prosody in varying severities of apraxia of speech /." 2001. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/theses.asp?Cmd=abstract&ID=CSD2001-001.
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Λαζαρίδης, Αλέξανδρος. "Prosody modelling using machine learning techniques for neutral and emotional speech synthesis." Thesis, 2011. http://nemertes.lis.upatras.gr/jspui/handle/10889/4553.
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In this doctoral dissertation three proposed approaches were evaluated using two databases of different languages, one American-English and one Greek. The proposed approaches were compared to the state-of-the-art models in the phone duration modelling task.
The SVR model outperformed all the other individual models evaluated in this dissertation. Their ability to outperform all the other models is mainly based on their advantage of coping in a better way with high-dimensionality feature spaces in respect to the other models used in phone duration modelling, which makes them appropriate even for the case when the amount of the training data would be small respectively to the number of the feature set used.
The proposed fusion scheme, taking advantage of the observation that different prediction algorithms perform better in different conditions, when implemented with SVR (SVR-fusion), contributed to the improvement of the phone duration prediction accuracy over that of the best individual model (SVR). Furthermore the SVR-fusion model managed to reduce the outliers in respect to the best individual model (SVR).
Moreover, the proposed two-stage scheme using individual phone duration models as feature constructors in the first stage and feature vector extension (FVE) in the second stage, implemented with SVR (SVR-FVE), improved the prediction accuracy over the best individual predictor (SVR), and the SVR-fusion scheme and moreover managed to reduce the outliers in respect to the other two proposed schemes (SVR and SVR-fusion). The SVR two-stage scheme confirms in this way their advantage over all the other algorithms of coping well with high-dimensionality feature sets. The improved accuracy of phone duration modelling contributes to a better control of the prosody, and thus quality of synthetic speech.
Furthermore, the first proposed method (SVR) was also evaluated on the phone duration modelling task in emotional speech, outperforming all the state-of-the-art models in all the emotional categories.
Finally, perceptual tests were performed evaluating the impact of the proposed phone duration models to synthetic speech. The perceptual test for both the databases confirmed the results of objective tests showing the improvement achieved by the proposed models in the naturalness of synthesized speech.Η παρούσα διδακτορική διατριβή πραγματεύεται προβλήματα που αφορούν στο χώρο της τεχνολογίας ομιλίας, με στόχο την μοντελοποίηση προσωδίας με χρήση τεχνικών μηχανικής μάθησης στα πλαίσια ουδέτερης και συναισθηματικής συνθετικής ομιλίας. Μελετήθηκαν τρεις καινοτόμες μέθοδοι μοντελοποίησης προσωδίας, οι οποίες αξιολογήθηκαν με αντικειμενικά τεστ και με υποκειμενικά τεστ ποιότητας ομιλίας για την συνεισφορά τους στην βελτίωση της ποιότητα της συνθετικής ομιλίας: Η πρώτη τεχνική μοντελοποίησης διάρκειας φωνημάτων, βασίζεται στην μοντελοποίηση με χρήση Μηχανών Υποστήριξης Διανυσμάτων (Support Vector Regression – SVR). Η μέθοδος αυτή δεν έχει χρησιμοποιηθεί έως σήμερα στην πρόβλεψη διάρκειας φωνημάτων. Η μέθοδος αυτή συγκρίθηκε και ξεπέρασε σε απόδοση όλες τις μεθόδους της επικρατούσας τεχνολογίας (state-of-the-art) στη μοντελοποίηση της διάρκειας φωνημάτων. Η δεύτερη τεχνική, βασίζεται στην μοντελοποίηση διάρκειας φωνημάτων με συνδυαστικό μοντέλο πολλαπλών προβλέψεων. Συγκεκριμένα, οι προβλέψεις διάρκειας φωνημάτων από ένα σύνολο ανεξάρτητων μοντέλων πρόβλεψης διάρκειας φωνημάτων χρησιμοποιούνται ως είσοδος σε ένα μοντέλο μηχανικής μάθησης, το οποίο συνδυάζει τις εξόδους από τα ανεξάρτητα μοντέλα πρόβλεψης και επιτυγχάνει μοντελοποίηση της διάρκειας φωνημάτων με μεγαλύτερη ακρίβεια, μειώνοντας επιπλέον και τα μεγάλα σφάλματα (outliers), δηλαδή τα σφάλματα που βρίσκονται μακριά από το μέσο όρο των σφαλμάτων. Η τρίτη τεχνική, είναι μια μέθοδος μοντελοποίησης διάρκειας φωνημάτων δύο σταδίων με κατασκευή νέων χαρακτηριστικών και επέκταση του διανύσματος χαρακτηριστικών. Συγκεκριμένα, στο πρώτο στάδιο, ένα σύνολο ανεξάρτητων μοντέλων πρόβλεψης διάρκειας φωνημάτων που χρησιμοποιούνται ως παραγωγοί νέων χαρακτηριστικών εμπλουτίζουν το διάνυσμα χαρακτηριστικών. Στο δεύτερο στάδιο, το εμπλουτισμένο διάνυσμα χρησιμοποιείται για να εκπαιδευτεί ένα μοντέλο πρόβλεψης διάρκειας φωνημάτων το οποίο επιτυγχάνει υψηλότερη απόδοση σε σχέση με όλες τις προηγούμενες μεθόδους, και μειώνει τα μεγάλα σφάλματα. Επιπλέον εφαρμόστηκε η πρώτη μέθοδος σε συναισθηματική ομιλία. Το προτεινόμενο SVR μοντέλο επιτυγχάνει την υψηλότερη απόδοση συγκρινόμενο με όλα τα state-of-the-art μοντέλα. Τέλος, πραγματοποιήθηκαν υποκειμενικά τεστ ποιότητας ομιλίας ώστε να αξιολογηθεί η συνεισφορά των τριών προτεινόμενων μεθόδων στη βελτίωση της ποιότητας της συνθετικής ομιλίας. Τα τεστ αυτά επιβεβαίωσαν την αξία των προτεινόμενων μεθόδων και τη συνεισφορά τους στη βελτίωση της ποιότητας στην συνθετική ομιλία.
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Chu, Ian-Ting, and 朱晏葶. "Primary Dysmenorrhea Alters the Perceptual Processing of Emotional Prosody: A MEG Study." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/64836364427288716402.
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碩士國立陽明大學
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Introduction: Primary dysmenorrhea (PDM), menstrual pain without pelvic abnormality, is the most common gynecological disorder for female in reproductive age. We previously reported functional and structural alternations of pain-laden brain regions in PDM. However, it is unknown how menstrual pain affect the perceptual process of emotion. PDM can be associated with various degrees of emotional disturbance. In this magnetoencephalographic (MEG) work, we studied the central processing of emotional prosody during peri-ovulatory(OV), a “trait-“ related phase, to elucidate the functional reorganization of emotional circuitry in PDM patients. Materials and Methods: All 25 PDMs and 25 age-matched controls both with regular menstrual cycle (27~32 days) were enrolled. We implemented a paradigm of emotional prosody (one-syllable happy, sad, angry, and neutral vocal sound; “hey”) to probe the automatic brain responses in face of different emotional voices. The brain responses were recorded in both menstrual (MC, day1~day3) and peri-ovulatory (OV, day12~day16) phases as confirmed by blood test of gonardal hormones. We used the beamformer method for source localization (co-registered on T1 MRI images) to estimate emotion-evoked brain activity. SPM8 was used for statistical image treatment. A 2 x 4 flexible factorial design-matrix, which consisted of 2 groups and 4 emotions, was adopted to examine group and menstrual effects, respectively, using SPM8 software (un-corrected p<0.01 and cluster extend >20). In this report, we focused mainly on brain responses at early (80-120 ms) and late component (150~280ms) to probe the features of early perceptual processing of emotional prosody in PDMs. A priori regions of interest (ROIs) included superior temporal gyrus (STG), inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) and caudate were applied for small volume correction (p<0.05, FWE-corr.). Results: In the between-group comparison during OV phases, we observed an overall decreased activation of all emotions (happy, sad and angry) in the PDMs as compared to the control. The most prominent attenuation of responses to happy emotion was found in prior regions, especially left-STG, right-anterior insula, right-SMA, right-ACC, right-mid-OFC and right-caudate. On the contrary, the negative emotional prosody showed different pattern. For angry prosody, we observered a significant differences in left-IFG, left-insula and bilateral MFG. Most importantly, PDM
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Liu, Yi-Chun, and 劉怡君. "Neural plasticity in processing of emotional prosody after long-term musical training revealed by magnetoencephalography." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/99384448371704628413.
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碩士國立陽明大學
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Introduction: Long-term musical training not only can enhance the skills of art but also can consolidate cognitive and emotional experiences into an aesthetic experience. Emotion is a very important component of artistic expression. The emotional prosody is the non-verbal vocal expression of emotion to convey a speaker’s emotional information to the listener. The M50 (50 ms after auditory stimulus onset) and M100 (100 ms after auditory stimulus onset) are the auditory components for the function of auditory input change detector and perceptual processing, respectively. Previous studies demonstrated that musicians detect and recognize emotional prosody sensitively and precisely. The present study investigates the pre-attentive processes of emotional prosody in early auditory perceptual stage after long-term musical training using magne-toencephalography (MEG). Methods: One hundred and fourteen subjects (pianists, string players, and non-artist controls) were recruited. The event-related magnetoencephalographic (MEG) data were recorded when subjects listened to emotional prosody (neutral, sad, happy, and angry). Participants were instructed to ignore the auditory stimulation while watching a silent movie. The dipole fitting method was used to localize two equivalent current dipoles (ECDs) at the bilateral auditory cortices of each individual and a beamformer-based source imaging technique was used to estimate spatiotemporal neuronal activities. A two sample t-test was performed to compare source amplitude and latency at M50 and M100 components for each dipole source, as well as for comparison of distributed source images between groups. Correlation analysis was also conducted between brain activity and behavioral data. Results: We found that pianists and string players had shorter latency (M50 and M100) in response to neutral, sad and angry prosody at the bilateral auditory cortices. No significant difference between musicians and non-musicians was found for source amplitude. Musicians had higher activity in the frontal regions and (para) hippocampus during listening to happy prosody and enhanced activity in the temporal and parietal regions during listening to sad prosody. The results showed the positive correlation between the amount of practice time per day and activities at several brain areas, such as temporal, frontal cortex, (para) hippocampus, and lingual gyrus in musicians. The brain activity of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex was negatively correlated with the empathy quotient (EQ) scores in musicians. iv Abstract Introduction: Long-term musical training not only can enhance the skills of art but also can consolidate cognitive and emotional experiences into an aesthetic experience. Emotion is a very important component of artistic expression. The emotional prosody is the non-verbal vocal expression of emotion to convey a speaker’s emotional infor- mation to the listener. The M50 (50 ms after auditory stimulus onset) and M100 (100 ms after auditory stimulus onset) are the auditory components for the function of audi- tory input change detector and perceptual processing, respectively. Previous studies demonstrated that musicians detect and recognize emotional prosody sensitively and precisely. The present study investigates the pre-attentive processes of emotional pros- ody in early auditory perceptual stage after long-term musical training using magne- toencephalography (MEG). Methods: One hundred and fourteen subjects (pianists, string players, and non-artist controls) were recruited. The event-related magnetoencephalographic (MEG) data were recorded when subjects listened to emotional prosody (neutral, sad, happy, and angry). Participants were instructed to ignore the auditory stimulation while watching a silent movie. The dipole fitting method was used to localize two equivalent current dipoles (ECDs) at the bilateral auditory cortices of each individual and a beamformer-based source imaging technique was used to estimate spatiotemporal neuronal activities. A two sample t-test was performed to compare source amplitude and latency at M50 and M100 components for each dipole source, as well as for comparison of distributed source images between groups. Correlation analysis was also conducted between brain activity and behavioral data. Results: We found that pianists and string players had shorter latency (M50 and M100) in response to neutral, sad and angry prosody at the bilateral auditory cortices. No significant difference between musicians and non-musicians was found for source am- plitude. Musicians had higher activity in the frontal regions and (para) hippocampus during listening to happy prosody and enhanced activity in the temporal and parietal regions during listening to sad prosody. The results showed the positive correlation be- tween the amount of practice time per day and activities at several brain areas, such as temporal, frontal cortex, (para) hippocampus, and lingual gyrus in musicians. The brain activity of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex was negatively correlated with the empathy quotient (EQ) scores in musicians. Conclusions: Our study demonstrated the neural responses to emotional prosody after long-term musical training. The shorter latency implicated that musicians achieved higher efficiency and effectiveness auditory processing to detect the prosody automatically. The heightened activity at the frontal and temporal cortices revealed that musicians may discriminate the happy prosody related to reward system and be more sensi- tive to detect sad prosody pre-attentively. The finding of the lower activity at the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex with higher empathic ability in musicians implicates that the musicians may inhibit their own emotional state to process the external auditory stimuli with socially urgent emotion. Our results demonstrate that the perception of other people's emotional state may be improved by musical training in early auditory response. The present study suggests the long-term musical training impacted the neuroplasticity of emotional perception and processing.
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Liu, Yu-Hsiang, and 劉鈺翔. "Effects of BDNF Val66Met polymorphism on neural responses to emotional prosody in primary dysmenorrhea: a MEG study." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/54559242632059462139.
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Abstract Introduction: Primary dysmenorrhea (PDM) is a common gynecological disorder in women of reproductive age. Animal studies have reported the association between the variants of Brian-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) Val66Met polymorphism and anxiety‐related behavior. Our recent study reported that PDM is associated with high-er anxiety. However, the effects of BDNF gene and long-term cyclic pain experience on brain responses to emotional stimuli are still unclear. The present study aimed at using magnetoencephalography (MEG)‐imaging genetics to investigate the effect of BDNF Val66met polymorphism on brain responses to emotional prosody in PDM pa-tients. Materials and Methods: Fifty-five right‐handed PDM patients and 54 age‐matched otherwise healthy women (all regular menstrual cycle, 27~32 days) were scanned during the peri-ovulatory phase (day12~day16 of the menstrual cycle). An emotional prosody paradigm was used to probe the emotional brain responses. Brain activity was recorded with a whole‐head neuromagnetometer (Vectorview, Neuromag, Finland). The beamformer method was used to estimate source images of emotion-evoked brain responses. A 2 x 3 flexible factorial design-matrix, which consisted of 2 groups and 3 BDNF genotypes (we had four different emotion stimuli, and each emotion condition was done individually), was adopted to examine group and emotion effects, respectively, using SPM8 software (un-corrected p<0.005 and cluster extend >20). Our study focused mainly on brain responses at early component (M50 and M100) to probe the features of early perceptual processing of emotional prosody in different BDNF genotype PDMs. Finally we used linear regression analysis to evaluate whether a gene dosage effect on neural activity exists in BDNF Val66Met. Results: From the results of between-group (PDM>Control) comparison, we found an overall increased activation of all emotions in the PDMs as compared to the control group. PDM had the increased activity in the right superior temporal gyrus (pSTG), inferior parietal lobule (IPL, BA7) and left superior occipital gyrus for sad perception, and the increased left cingulate gyrus activity for happy perception. The McGill pain experience scores were negative correlated with the response of the right pSTG and the left SOG in the PDMs during sad prosody perception. The interaction between group (PDM and CON) and BDNF genotype (Val/Val, Val/Met and Met/Met) only showed significant difference during sad and happy prosody perception. The respons-es of sad prosody perception showed significant difference in the right middle tem-poral gyrus (MTG; BA21/22) and posterior superior temporal gyrus (pSTG). For the response of the left precentral gyrus (PreCG) showed significant difference in happy prosody perception. We also found dose-dependent brain activity in these regions. Conclusions: Our study indicates that BDNF-gene Val66Met polymorphism may be associated with differential processing of emotional prosody in PDM. The Met ho-mozygotes may be associated with anxiety, which might be induced by long-term menstrual pain. The long-term menstrual pain can also make PDM patients with Val homozygotes prissier and thus result in their hyper-activation in response to emotional cues. Our data also demonstrated that dose-dependent decrease of the emotion-related brain activity associated with Met allele might indirectly reverse changes in PDM. These findings suggest that the Met homozygotes may influence the BDNF reactivity as effectuated by stress, which in turn would modulate the brain plasticity.
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Devaux, Keiko. "Musical 'translations' of experience through the interpretation of extra-musical forms and patterns." Thèse, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/21871.
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Wiethoff, Sarah [Verfasser]. "Cerebral processing of emotional prosody : influence of acoustic parameters, arousal and the role of cross-gender interactions / vorgelegt von Sarah Wiethoff." 2010. http://d-nb.info/1008795852/34.
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Μπουρνά, Βασιλική. "Τεμαχιοποίηση ομιλίας σε φωνητικές ομάδες για αναγνώριση και σύνθεση ομιλίας." Thesis, 2008. http://nemertes.lis.upatras.gr/jspui/handle/10889/1274.
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H διαρκώς αυξανόμενη ανάπτυξη εφαρμογών όπως τα συστήματα μετατροπής κειμένου σε ομιλία (TTS systems) ή τα συστήματα αυτόματης αναγώρισης ομιλίας (ASR systems) κάνουν επιτακτική την ανάγκη της μελέτης χαρακτηριστικών της ομιλίας που δεν περιορίζονται σε συντακτικούς ή λεξιλογικούς κανόνες, αλλά σηματοδοτούνται από διαφορετικές διαδικασίες, όπως είναι η προσωδία. Τα προσωδιακά χαρακτηριστικά της ομιλίας είναι αυτά που πέρα από το λεξιλογικό περιεχόμενο των προτάσεων, επισημαίνουν άλλα σημαντικά στοιχεία που αφορούν στην εστίαση και την έμφαση, εισάγωντας με αυτό τον τρόπο ένα δευτερεύον υποκείμενο κανάλι στην επικοινωνία. Επιπλεόν, συνδέονται σε μεγάλο βαθμό με την έκφραση συναισθήματος στην ομιλία. Γι'αυτό το λόγο είναι σημαντικό το να διερευνηθούν τα χαρακτηριστικά αυτά, τόσο στην ουδέτερη ομιλία, όσο και στις περιπτώσεις ομιλίας σε ορισμένες συναισθηματικές καταστάσεις.
Στην παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία γίνεται τεμαχιοποίηση μιας συναισθηματικής ομιλίας, σε επίπεδο φωνημάτων και επιτονική επισημείωση των προσωδιακών γεγονότων που λαμβάνουν χώρα σε επίπεδο συλλαβών, προκειμένου να εξαχθούν οι παράμετροι εκείνες που θα μας επιτρέψουν να μελετήσουμε τα προσωδιακά χαρακτηριστικά παρουσία συναισθηματικής κατάστασης, σε σύγκριση με την ουδέτερη ομιλία.
Στη συνέχεια πραγματοποιείται επεξεργασία των δεδομένων και μελέτη των προσωδιακών χαρακτηριστικών, μέσω σύγκρισης των χαρακτηριστικών που παρατηρούνται απο συναίσθημα σε συναίσθημα και μέσω της κατασκευής μοντέλων πρόβλεψης της διάρκειας των φωνημάτων και από αυτές τις διαδικασίες προκύπτουν και παρουσιάζονται κάποια συμπεράσματα σχετικά με την προσωδιακή πτυχή της συναισθηματικής ομιλίας.The continuously rising development of applications such as Text-to-Speech systems (TTS systems) or Automatic Speech Recognition systems (ASR systems), make imperative the investigation of characteristics of speech which are not limited within the syntactic οr lexical rules, but are signaled by different processes, such as prosody. The prosodic features of speech are those which, beyond the lexical content of utterances, point out other important elements concerning the focus and the accent, implying in that way a secondary subjacent channel of communication. Moreover, they are connected to a great extent with the expression of emotion in speech. Thus, it is important to investigate these features, in neutral speech as well as in cases of speech under emotional conditions. In this thesis, took place the segmentation of a database of emotional speech in phonemic level and the intonational annotation of the prosodic events that occur in the syllabic level, in order to extract the parameters that allow us to study the prosodic features in the presence of emotional state compared to the neutral speech. Following, the extracted data were processed and the prosodic features were studied, through comparing the characteristics that are observed in the different emotional conditions and by building duration prediction models of phonemes and the conclusions drawn through these processes are presented, with regard to the prosodic aspect of emotional speech.