Spatial location and emotion modulate voice perception

Pinheiro, Ana P.; Lima, Dragsa Silva Santos; Albuquerque, Pedro Barbas; Anikin, Andrey; Lima, César F.

doi:10.1080/02699931.2019.1586647

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“…Nonverbal vocalizations are distinct from spoken language regarding their underlying articulatory mechanisms [6]. They represent a primitive, universal and efficient form of emotional communication [7][8][9][10][11][12].…”

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Emotional authenticity modulates affective and social trait inferences from voices

Pinheiro

Anikin

Conde

et al. 2021

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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The human voice is a primary tool for verbal and nonverbal communication. Studies on laughter emphasize a distinction between spontaneous laughter, which reflects a genuinely felt emotion, and volitional laughter, associated with more intentional communicative acts. Listeners can reliably differentiate the two. It remains unclear, however, if they can detect authenticity in other vocalizations, and whether authenticity determines the affective and social impressions that we form about others. Here, 137 participants listened to laughs and cries that could be spontaneous or volitional and rated them on authenticity, valence, arousal, trustworthiness and dominance. Bayesian mixed models indicated that listeners detect authenticity similarly well in laughter and crying. Speakers were also perceived to be more trustworthy, and in a higher arousal state, when their laughs and cries were spontaneous. Moreover, spontaneous laughs were evaluated as more positive than volitional ones, and we found that the same acoustic features predicted perceived authenticity and trustworthiness in laughter: high pitch, spectral variability and less voicing. For crying, associations between acoustic features and ratings were less reliable. These findings indicate that emotional authenticity shapes affective and social trait inferences from voices, and that the ability to detect authenticity in vocalizations is not limited to laughter. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Voice modulation: from origin and mechanism to social impact (Part I)’.

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Emotional authenticity modulates affective and social trait inferences from voices

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“…As a result, 454 papers were identified. They were supplemented by six additional papers [16], [17], [26], [30], [31], [34], identified earlier by these authors during an informal exploratory literature review. Then, 57 duplicates were removed from the list, yielding a selection of 403 papers.…”

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“…The remaining eleven papers reviewed in this study belong to the technology-agnostic category [14], [16]- [19], [23], [24], [26], [30], [31], [34]. In contrast to the technology-oriented studies, in this category, a single reproduction system is normally used as a means of exploring how different spatial audio scenes change listeners' affective responses.…”

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“…In other words, the researchers' goal is to analyze the influence of the selected characteristics of acoustic scenes regardless of the device or technology used for their reproduction. For example, the researchers explore how the angular position of a single sound source affects the intensity of the perceived emotions [16], [31], they investigate the difference between the front and back-positioned audio sources [17], [18], or between front and side-positioned sound sources [23], [24]. Moreover, some researchers explore the influence of the spatial properties of the acoustic environments [14], [30], including the link between a type of concert halls and felt emotions [30].…”

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Spatial sound and emotions: A literature survey on the relationship between spatially rendered audio and listeners’ affective responses

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Zieliński

2024

International Journal of Electronics and Telecommunications

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With the development of the entertainment industry, the need for immersive and emotionally impactful sound design has emerged. Utilization of spatial sound is potentially the next step to improve the audio experiences for listeners in terms of their emotional engagement. Hence, the relationship between spatial audio characteristics and emotional responses of the listeners has been the main focus of several recent studies. This paper provides a systematic overview of the above reports, including the analysis of commonly utilized methodology and technology. The survey was undertaken using four literature repositories, namely, Google Scholar, Scopus, IEEE Xplore, and AES E-Library. The overviewed papers were selected according to the empirical validity and quality of the reported studies. According to the survey outcomes, there is growing evidence of a positive influence of the selected spatial audio characteristics on the listeners’ affective responses. However, more data is required to build reliable, universal, and useful models explaining the above relationship. Furthermore, the two research trends on this topic were identified. Namely, the studies undertaken so far can be classified as either technology-oriented or technology-agnostic, depending on the research questions or experimental factors examined. Prospective future research directions regarding this topic are identified and discussed. They include better utilization of scene-based paradigms, affective computing techniques, and exploring the emotional effects of dynamic changes in spatial audio scenes.

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“…Notably, sounds located outside of the visual field (i.e., 135 and 180° from the front) were evaluated as more arousing and caused participants to feel less pleasant (Drossos et al, 2015). In turn, Pinheiro et al (2019) showed that emotional vocal expressions, as compared to neutral ones, were more accurately localized when presented from behind (i.e., either 135 or 225° from the azimuth of face direction) while there were no such differences when vocalizations were presented in the front (i.e., 315 and 45°). Finally, in our previous work, we demonstrated that when presented behind the listener, sentences spoken in an unknown language are interpreted as more negative (Study 1) and that ambiguous feedback from a bogus test is rated as an indicator of poorer listener's performance (Study 3; Frankowska et al, 2020).…”

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“Rear bias” in spatial auditory perception: Attentional and affective vigilance to sounds occurring outside the visual field

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Presented studies explored the rear bias phenomenon, that is, the attentional and affective bias to sounds occurring behind the listener. Physiological and psychological reactions (i.e., fEMG, EDA/SCR, Simple Reaction Task–SRT, and self‐assessments of affect‐related states) were measured in response to tones of different frequencies (Study 1) and emotional vocalizations (Study 2) presented in rear and front spatial locations. Results showed that emotional vocalizations, when located in the back, facilitate reactions related to attention orientation (i.e., auricularis muscle response and simple reaction times) and evoke higher arousal—both physiological (as measured by SCR) and psychological (self‐assessment scale). Importantly, observed asymmetries were larger for negative and threat‐related signals (e.g., anger) than positive/nonthreatening ones (e.g., achievement). By contrast, there were only small differences for the relatively higher frequency tones. The observed relationships are discussed in terms of one of the postulated auditory system's functions, which is monitoring of the environment in order to quickly detect potential threats that occur outside of the visual field (e.g., behind one's back).

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Spatial location and emotion modulate voice perception

Cited by 8 publications

References 27 publications

Emotional authenticity modulates affective and social trait inferences from voices

Emotional authenticity modulates affective and social trait inferences from voices

Spatial sound and emotions: A literature survey on the relationship between spatially rendered audio and listeners’ affective responses

“Rear bias” in spatial auditory perception: Attentional and affective vigilance to sounds occurring outside the visual field

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