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1、OntheTimeCourseofVocalEmotionRecognition12MarcD.Pell*,SonjaA.Kotz1SchoolofCommunicationSciencesandDisorders,McGillUniversity,Montre´al,Que´bec,Canada,2ResearchGroup‘‘NeurocognitionofRhythminCommunication’’,MaxPlanckInstituteforHumanCognitiveandBrainSciences,Leipzig,GermanyAbstr
2、actHowquicklydolistenersrecognizeemotionsfromaspeaker’svoice,anddoesthetimecourseforrecognitionvarybyemotiontype?Toaddressthesequestions,weadaptedtheauditorygatingparadigmtoestimatehowmuchvocalinformationisneededforlistenerstocategorizefivebasicemotions(anger,disgust,fear,sadne
3、ss,happiness)andneutralutterancesproducedbymaleandfemalespeakersofEnglish.Semantically-anomalouspseudo-utterances(e.g.,Therivixjolledthesilling)conveyingeachemotionweredividedintosevengateintervalsaccordingtothenumberofsyllablesthatlistenersheardfromsentenceonset.Participants(n
4、=48)judgedtheemotionalmeaningofstimulipresentedateachgatedurationinterval,inasuccessive,blockedpresentationformat.Analyseslookedathowrecognitionofeachemotionevolvesasanutteranceunfoldsandestimatedthe‘‘identificationpoint’’foreachemotion.Resultsshowedthatanger,sadness,fear,andne
5、utralexpressionsarerecognizedmoreaccuratelyatshortgateintervalsthanhappiness,andparticularlydisgust;however,asspeechunfolds,recognitionofhappinessimprovessignificantlytowardstheendoftheutterance(andfearisrecognizedmoreaccuratelythanotheremotions).Whenthegateassociatedwiththeemo
6、tionidentificationpointofeachstimuluswascalculated,dataindicatedthatfear(M=517ms),sadness(M=576ms),andneutral(M=510ms)expressionswereidentifiedfromshorteracousticeventsthantheotheremotions.Thesedatarevealdifferencesintheunderlyingtimecourseforconsciousrecognitionofbasicemotions
7、fromvocalexpressions,whichshouldbeaccountedforinstudiesofemotionalspeechprocessing.Citation:PellMD,KotzSA(2011)OntheTimeCourseofVocalEmotionRecognition.PLoSONE6(11):e27256.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0027256Editor:AldoRustichini,UniversityofMinnesota,UnitedStatesofAmericaReceivedJ
8、une10,2011;AcceptedOctober12,2011;PublishedNovember7,2