Affective auditory stimuli: Characterization of the International Affective Digitized Sounds (IADS) by discrete emotional categories

Stevenson, Ryan A.; James, Thomas W.

doi:10.3758/brm.40.1.315

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“…Standardised auditory stimuli were used from the International Affective Digitized Sounds (IADS; Stevenson & James, 2008), which is a database of 111 sounds characterised along the affective dimensions of valence, arousal, and dominance. The experimental stimuli (ES) were selected on the basis that they scored highly in pain and empathy.…”

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Hearing others’ pain: neural activity related to empathy

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Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci

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The human voice is one of the principal conveyers of social and affective communication. Recent neuroimaging studies have suggested that observing pain in others activates neural representations similar to those from the first-hand experience of pain; however, studies on pain expressions in the auditory channel are lacking. We conducted a functional magnetic resonance imaging study to examine brain responses to emotional exclamations of others' pain. The control condition comprised positive (e.g., laughing) or negative (e.g., snoring) stimuli of the human voice that were not associated with pain and suffering. Compared to these control stimuli, pain-related exclamations elicited increased activation in the superior and middle temporal gyri, left insula, secondary somatosensory cortices, thalamus, and right cerebellum, as well as deactivation in the anterior cingulate cortex. The left anterior insular and thalamic activations correlated significantly with the Empathic Concern subscale of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index. Thus, the brain regions involved in hearing others' pain are similar to those activated in the empathic processing of visual stimuli. Additionally, the findings emphasise the modulating role of interindividual differences in affective empathy.

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Hearing others’ pain: neural activity related to empathy

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Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci

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“…Additionally, the effects of categories on affective dimensions are heterogeneous, supporting the need to reconsider dimensional and categorical approaches as independent perspectives (e.g., Stevenson et al, 2007). Therefore, dimensional and discrete approaches are not mutually exclusive: When combined, they may provide complementary information, and both should be taken into account when conducting experimental studies of emotion (e.g., Christie & Friedman, 2004;Russell, 2003;Stevenson & James, 2008;Stevenson et al, 2007;Wierzba et al, 2015). Recognizing the advantages of the combination of dimensional and categorical accounts, with the present study we aimed to collect categorical and dimensional affective ratings for 192 European Portuguese sentences, to provide a deeper understanding of the emotional features of the stimuli under study.…”

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“…For example, each discrete emotion may be identified by a specific set of coordinates in the multidimensional affective space, such as valence and arousal (e.g., Stevenson & James, 2008;Stevenson, Mikels, & James, 2007;Wierzba et al, 2015). Additionally, the effects of categories on affective dimensions are heterogeneous, supporting the need to reconsider dimensional and categorical approaches as independent perspectives (e.g., Stevenson et al, 2007).…”

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Minho Affective Sentences (MAS): Probing the roles of sex, mood, and empathy in affective ratings of verbal stimuli

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During social communication, words and sentences play a critical role in the expression of emotional meaning. The Minho Affective Sentences (MAS) were developed to respond to the lack of a standardized sentence battery with normative affective ratings: 192 neutral, positive, and negative declarative sentences were strictly controlled for psycholinguistic variables such as numbers of words and letters and per-million word frequency. The sentences were designed to represent examples of each of the five basic emotions (anger, sadness, disgust, fear, and happiness) and of neutral situations. These sentences were presented to 536 participants who rated the stimuli using both dimensional and categorical measures of emotions. Sex differences were also explored. Additionally, we probed how personality, empathy, and mood from a subset of 40 participants modulated the affective ratings. Our results confirmed that the MAS affective norms are valid measures to guide the selection of stimuli for experimental studies of emotion. The combination of dimensional and categorical ratings provided a more finegrained characterization of the affective properties of the sentences. Moreover, the affective ratings of positive and negative sentences were not only modulated by participants' sex, but also by individual differences in empathy and mood state. Together, our results indicate that, in their quest to reveal the neurofunctional underpinnings of verbal emotional processing, researchers should consider not only the role of sex, but also of interindividual differences in empathy and mood states, in responses to the emotional meaning of sentences.

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“…As we have already mentioned, in light of recent evidence suggesting a role of discrete emotions in word processing (Briesemeister et al, 2011a(Briesemeister et al, , 2011bBriesemeister, Kuchinke, & Jacobs, 2014;Silva, Montant, Ponz, & Ziegler, 2012), studies using emotional words as stimuli would benefit not only from a dimensional but also from a categorical characterization of the words. Norms for discrete emotions, however, have not yet been made available in Spanish (for norms in German, see Briesemeister et al, 2011b; for norms in English, see Stevenson et al, 2007, andStrauss &Allen, 2008; see also Stevenson & James, 2008, for ratings of discrete emotional categories for the International Affective Digitized Sounds). Second, some reports have observed that grammatical word class influences emotion effects in word comprehension, with a processing advantage for emotional nouns and adjectives relative to verbs (Palazova, Mantwill, Sommer, & Schacht, 2011;Schacht & Sommer, 2009).…”

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Affective norms of 875 Spanish words for five discrete emotional categories and two emotional dimensions

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In the present study, we introduce affective norms for a new set of Spanish words, the Madrid Affective Database for Spanish (MADS), that were scored on two emotional dimensions (valence and arousal) and on five discrete emotional categories (happiness, anger, sadness, fear, and disgust), as well as on concreteness, by 660 Spanish native speakers. Measures of several objective psycholinguistic variables-grammatical class, word frequency, number of letters, and number of syllables-for the words are also included. We observed high split-half reliabilities for every emotional variable and a strong quadratic relationship between valence and arousal. Additional analyses revealed several associations between the affective dimensions and discrete emotions, as well as with some psycholinguistic variables. This new corpus complements and extends prior databases in Spanish and allows for designing new experiments investigating the influence of affective content in language processing under both dimensional and discrete theoretical conceptions of emotion. These norms can be downloaded as supplemental materials for this article from www.dropbox.com/s/o6dpw3irk6utfhy/ Hinojosa%20et%20al_Supplementary%20materials.xlsx?dl=0.

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Affective auditory stimuli: Characterization of the International Affective Digitized Sounds (IADS) by discrete emotional categories

Cited by 110 publications

References 38 publications

Hearing others’ pain: neural activity related to empathy

Hearing others’ pain: neural activity related to empathy

Minho Affective Sentences (MAS): Probing the roles of sex, mood, and empathy in affective ratings of verbal stimuli

Affective norms of 875 Spanish words for five discrete emotional categories and two emotional dimensions

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