The auditory gating paradigm was adopted to study how much acoustic information is
needed to recognize emotions from speech prosody and music performances. In Study 1 …

The ability to detect emotional changes is of primary importance for social living. Though
emotional signals are often conveyed by multiple modalities, how emotional changes in …

Current research on music processing and syntax or semantics in language suggests that
music and language share partially overlapping neural resources. Pitch also constitutes a …

Sentence prosody is long known to serve both linguistic functions (eg to differentiate
between questions and statements) and emotional functions (eg to detect the emotional …

Emotional communication is an important part of social interaction because it gives
individuals valuable information about the state of others, allowing them to adjust their …

Part of musical understanding and enjoyment stems from the ability to accurately predict
what note (or one of a small set of notes) is likely to follow after hearing the first part of a …

The current study employed behavioral and electrophysiological measures to investigate the
timing, localization, and neural oscillation characteristics of cortical activities associated with …

Although its role is frequently stressed in acoustic profile for vocal emotion, sound intensity is
frequently regarded as a control parameter in neurocognitive studies of vocal emotion …

Prosody, that is meaningful patterns in intonation, rhythm, stress, and tone, impacts on a
large body of other language operations, and it is likely one of the most undervalued and …

The use of prosody during verbal communication is pervasive in everyday language and
whilst there is a wealth of research examining the prosodic processing of emotional …