Speech emotion recognition (SER) is traditionally performed using merely acoustic
information. Acoustic features, commonly are extracted per frame, are mapped into emotion …

In this article, we discuss the hypothesis that affect is a fundamental, psychologically
irreducible property of the human mind. We begin by presenting historical perspectives on …

There is remarkable variety in emotional life. Not all mental states referred to by the same
word (eg,“fear”) look alike, feel alike, or have the same neurophysiological signature …

The voice is often the only continuous channel of expression in pitch videos. We isolate the
influence of entrepreneurs' vocal expressions on funding by examining how valence …

Spoken words are highly variable. A single word may never be uttered the same way twice.
As listeners, we regularly encounter speakers of different ages, genders, and accents …

Socio-indexical cues and paralinguistic information are often beneficial to speech
processing as this information assists listeners in parsing the speech stream. Associations …

The paper presents the Affective Pertinentization Model (APER), a theory of the affect and its
role it plays in meaning-making. APER views the affect as the basic form of making sense of …

Rapid assessment of emotions is important for detecting and prioritizing salient input.
Emotions are conveyed in spoken words via verbal and non-verbal channels that are …

In 1986, I wrote a book with the audacious title of “The Brain Code,” which summarized the
findings from neuropsychology indicating a particular view of hemispheric specialization …

This study evaluated the benefits of cochlear implant (CI) with regard to emotion perception
of participants differing in their age of implantation, in comparison to hearing aid users and …