2013
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00344
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Perception of emotionally loaded vocal expressions and its connection to responses to music. A cross-cultural investigation: Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Russia, and the USA

Abstract: The present study focused on voice quality and the perception of the basic emotions from speech samples in cross-cultural conditions. It was examined whether voice quality, cultural, or language background, age, or gender were related to the identification of the emotions. Professional actors (n2) and actresses (n2) produced non-sense sentences (n32) and protracted vowels (n8) expressing the six basic emotions, interest, and a neutral emotional state. The impact of musical interests on the ability to distingui… Show more

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“…It was also of interest to study children's own subjective understanding of their relations to music and musical interests, and whether their self-reported (i.e., not reported, for example, by their parents) musical interests are connected to their ability to perceive emotional cues from speech signals. According to Juslin and Laukka (2003), the emotional expressiveness of music is based on the similarities of the emotional acoustic cues in vocal expressions (see also Waaramaa and Leisiö, 2013). Thus, speech and emotional music may engage the same neural processes (Juslin and Västfäll, 2008).…”
Section: Vocal Emotion Identification By Children Using Cochlear Implmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…It was also of interest to study children's own subjective understanding of their relations to music and musical interests, and whether their self-reported (i.e., not reported, for example, by their parents) musical interests are connected to their ability to perceive emotional cues from speech signals. According to Juslin and Laukka (2003), the emotional expressiveness of music is based on the similarities of the emotional acoustic cues in vocal expressions (see also Waaramaa and Leisiö, 2013). Thus, speech and emotional music may engage the same neural processes (Juslin and Västfäll, 2008).…”
Section: Vocal Emotion Identification By Children Using Cochlear Implmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Frequencies of F3 and F4 have been shown to differ between emotional expressions (Laukkanen, Vilkman, Alku & Oksanen, 1997;Waaramaa et al, 2006;Waaramaa et al, 2008;Waaramaa, Palo, & Kankare, 2014). Voice breaks, jitter, shimmer, and harmonics to noise are also shown to be related to emotional expressions (Laukkanen et al, 2008;Toivanen, Waaramaa, Alku, Laukkanen, Seppänen, Väyrynen & Airas, 2006;Waaramaa et al, 2010;Waaramaa & Leisiö, 2013).…”
Section: Acoustic Analysesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Further, our entire cohort of subjects ( n = 64) was derived from a Spanish speaking population. In this regard, identifying emotion is easier for listening individuals with similar cultural and language backgrounds (Waaramaa and Leisiö, 2013) and a second language is known to interfere with emotion recognition from speech prosody (Bhatara et al, 2016). The repertoire of music used in the present study was classical, which was familiar to all participants; therefore, we believe the effect due to cultural background should be minimal.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Some variations in affective speech may be captured by alternative, perhaps more subtle, cues ( Bänziger et al, 2014 ) that we did not include here. Voice quality, for example, is known to be used in verbal affect perception ( Grichkovtsova et al, 2012 ), and is related to the perception of valence in affective speech ( Waaramaa and Leisiö, 2013 ). Possibly, alternative cues for valence, such as voice quality, may have been less available to the older listeners with poorer hearing in our experiment, leading to a differential use of mean F 0 in the current sample of older adults.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%