The cross-modal transfer of emotional information from voices to faces in 5-, 8- and 10-year-old children and adults: An eye-tracking study.

Palama, Amaya; Malsert, Jennifer; Grandjean, Didier; Sander, David; Gentaz, Édouard

doi:10.1037/emo0000758

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“…Thus, it is possible that the auditory cues influenced and guided the visual cues in integrating multimodal cues in our training. Indeed, auditory information has been known to guide eye movements in audiovisual emotional processing, such that an emotional voice yielded longer and more frequent fixations on emotionally congruent faces ( 50 – 52 ) and drew more attention to salient facial features, which could help to improve emotion recognition in schizophrenia patients ( 11 ).…”

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Effects of an Audiovisual Emotion Perception Training for Schizophrenia: A Preliminary Study

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Individuals with schizophrenia show a reduced ability to integrate facial and vocal information in emotion perception. Although emotion perception has been a target for treatment, no study has yet examined the effect of multimodal training on emotion perception in schizophrenia. In the present study, we developed an audiovisual emotion perception training and test in which a voice and a face were simultaneously presented, and subjects were asked to judge whether the emotions of the voice and the face matched. The voices were either angry or happy, and the faces were morphed on a continuum ranging from angry to happy. Sixteen patients with schizophrenia participated in six training sessions and three test sessions (i.e., pre-training, post-training, and generalization). Eighteen healthy controls participated only in pre-training test session. Prior to training, the patients with schizophrenia performed significantly worse than did the controls in the recognition of anger; however, following the training, the patients showed a significant improvement in recognizing anger, which was maintained and generalized to a new set of stimuli. The patients also improved the recognition of happiness following the training, but this effect was not maintained or generalized. These results provide preliminary evidence that a multimodal, audiovisual training may yield improvements in anger perception for patients with schizophrenia.

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Effects of an Audiovisual Emotion Perception Training for Schizophrenia: A Preliminary Study

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“…At 6 months of age, following prior exposure to voices infants could transfer amodal information from emotional voices to faces (33). During childhood development, this ability to extract amodal emotion information seems to increase with age and depends on the speci c emotion presented (34). Finally, the role of early visual experience is determinant for recognizing emotional prosody, as suggested by a recent study examining prosody accuracy rates in students with congenital or adventitious blindness (35).…”

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Emotional Prosody Recognition Enhances and Progressively Complexifies From Childhood to Adolescence

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Lima

Grandjean

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Background: Emotional prosody is the result of the dynamic variation of acoustical non-verbal aspects of language that allow people to convey and recognize emotions. Understanding how this recognition develops during childhood to adolescence is the goal of the present paper. We also aim to test the maturation of the ability to perceive mixed emotions in voice. Methods: We tested 133 children and adolescents, aged between 6 and 17 years old, exposed to 4 kinds of emotional (anger, fear, happiness, and sadness) and neutral linguistic meaningless stimuli. Participants were asked to judge the type and degree of perceived emotion on continuous scales. Results: By means of a general linear mixed model analysis, as predicted, a significant interaction between age and emotion was found. The ability to recognize emotions significantly increased with age for all emotional and neutral vocalizations. Girls recognized anger better than boys, who instead confused fear with neutral prosody more than girls did. Across all ages, only marginally significant differences were found between anger, happiness, and neutral versus sadness, which was more difficult to recognize. Finally, as age increased, participants were significantly more likely to attribute mixed emotions to emotional prosody, showing the progressive complexification of the emotional content representation that young adults perceived in emotional prosody. Conclusions: The ability to identify basic emotions from linguistically meaningless stimuli develops from childhood to adolescence. Interestingly, this maturation was not only evidenced in the accuracy of emotion detection, but also in a complexification of emotion attribution in prosody.

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“…In another study, 5-, 7-, and 9-year-olds were asked to categorize the emotion of a face paired with either congruent or incongruent emotional speech prosody produced in nonsense sentences (Gil et al, 2016). Emotional prosody modulated the processing of emotional faces only in the 9-year-olds, not in 5-and 7-year-olds (also see Palama et al, 2020, for a similar pattern of results when implicit measures, namely eye tracking, were used).…”

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Children’s decoding of emotional prosody in four languages.

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Zhou²,

Thompson³

2022

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It is well established that adults can interpret emotional speech prosody independent of word meaning comprehension, even for emotional speech prosody in an unfamiliar language. However, the acquisition of this ability remains unclear. This study examined the decoding of four emotions (happy, sad, surprise, angry) conveyed with speech prosody in four languages (English, Chinese, French, Spanish) by American and Chinese children at 3 to 5 years of age—an age range when the ability to decode emotional prosody in one’s native language emerges but remains fragile. Chinese and American children could decode the emotional meaning of speech prosody in both familiar and unfamiliar languages as young as 3 years old. Performance did not differ across the four languages used—a finding observed in both American and Chinese children. Thus, the in-group advantage of emotional prosody decoding reported for adults may not be evident by 5 years of age. Furthermore, emotional prosody decoding skills improved with age.

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The cross-modal transfer of emotional information from voices to faces in 5-, 8- and 10-year-old children and adults: An eye-tracking study.

Cited by 7 publications

References 65 publications

Effects of an Audiovisual Emotion Perception Training for Schizophrenia: A Preliminary Study

Effects of an Audiovisual Emotion Perception Training for Schizophrenia: A Preliminary Study

Emotional Prosody Recognition Enhances and Progressively Complexifies From Childhood to Adolescence

Children’s decoding of emotional prosody in four languages.

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