Recognition and evaluation of emotional prosody in individuals with generalized social phobia: A pilot study

Quadflieg, Susanne; Wendt, Beate; Mohr, Alexander T.; Miltner, Wolfgang H. R.; Straube, Thomas

doi:10.1016/j.brat.2007.08.003

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“…Moreover, individuals with high trait anxiety continue to show differences in their neural response sensitivity at later cognitive processing stages as they continue to process emotional speech. Our findings justify the opinion that heightened vigilance to emotional voices represents an important feature of trait anxiety and related disorders such as social phobia (Peschard et al, 2014;Quadflieg, Wendt, Mohr, Miltner, & Straube, 2007), a topic that is ripe for exploration.…”

Section: Effects Of Anxiety On Vocal Emotion Processingsupporting

confidence: 67%

Preferential decoding of emotion from human non-linguistic vocalizations versus speech prosody

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Rothermich

Liu

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Biological Psychology

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This study used event-related brain potentials (ERPs) to compare the time course of emotion processing from non-linguistic vocalizations versus speech prosody, to test whether vocalizations are treated preferentially by the neurocognitive system. Participants passively listened to vocalizations or pseudo-utterances conveying anger, sadness, or happiness as the EEG was recorded. Simultaneous effects of vocal expression type and emotion were analyzed for three ERP components (N100, P200, Late Positive Component). Emotional vocalizations and speech were differentiated very early (N100) and vocalizations elicited stronger, earlier, and more differentiated P200 responses than speech. At later stages (450-700ms), anger vocalizations evoked a stronger late positivity (LPC) than other vocal expressions, which was similar but delayed for angry speech.Individuals with high trait anxiety exhibited early, heightened sensitivity to vocal emotions (particularly vocalizations). These data provide new neurophysiological evidence that vocalizations, as evolutionarily primitive signals, are accorded precedence over speech-embedded emotions in the human voice.

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Section: Effects Of Anxiety On Vocal Emotion Processingsupporting

confidence: 67%

Preferential decoding of emotion from human non-linguistic vocalizations versus speech prosody

Pell

Rothermich

Liu

et al. 2015

Biological Psychology

163

134

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“…Despite this growing interest, we found only one study (Quadflieg et al, 2007) that probed the presence of biases in the interpretation of emotional prosody in SA. Findings indicated that compared to controls, HSA participants present higher correct identification rates for fearful and sad prosody than controls, but conversely show impaired performances for happy prosody.…”

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Towards a cross-modal perspective of emotional perception in social anxiety: review and future directions

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Maurage

Philippot

2014

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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The excessive fear of being negatively evaluated constitutes a central component of social anxiety (SA). Models posit that selective attention to threat and biased interpretations of ambiguous stimuli contribute to the maintenance of this psychopathology. There is strong support for the existence of processing biases but most of the available evidence comes from face research. Emotions are, however, not only conveyed through facial cues, but also through other channels, such as vocal and postural cues. These non-facial cues have yet received much less attention. We therefore plead for a cross-modal investigation of biases in SA. We argue that the inclusion of new modalities may be an efficient research tool to (1) address the specificity or generalizability of these biases; (2) offer an insight into the potential influence of SA on cross-modal processes; (3) operationalize emotional ambiguity by manipulating cross-modal emotional congruency; (4) inform the debate about the role of top-down and bottom-up factors in biasing attention; and (5) probe the cross-modal generalizability of cognitive training. Theoretical and clinical implications as well as potential fruitful avenues for research are discussed.

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“…Social anxiety disorders are characterized by enhanced sensitivity to threatening social cues (Joormann and Gotlib 2006;Straube et al 2005), and individuals diagnosed with social phobia are less accurate than controls at identifying happiness expressed in the face (Simonian et al 2001) and the voice (Quadflieg et al 2007). Oxytocin, by increasing sensitivity to other individuals' positive affect, might improve symptoms in patients with social anxiety disorders.…”

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Recognition and evaluation of emotional prosody in individuals with generalized social phobia: A pilot study

Cited by 44 publications

References 26 publications

Preferential decoding of emotion from human non-linguistic vocalizations versus speech prosody

Preferential decoding of emotion from human non-linguistic vocalizations versus speech prosody

Towards a cross-modal perspective of emotional perception in social anxiety: review and future directions

Oxytocin improves specific recognition of positive facial expressions

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