Prosody Dominates Over Semantics in Emotion Word Processing: Evidence From Cross-Channel and Cross-Modal Stroop Effects.

Purpose: Emotional speech communication involves multisensory integration of linguistic (e.g., semantic content) and paralinguistic (e.g., prosody and facial expressions) messages. Previous studies on linguistic versus paralinguistic salience effects in emotional speech processing have produced inco...

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Publicado en:Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 63; no. 3; pp. 896 - 913
Autores principales: Yi Lin, Hongwei Ding, Yang Zhang
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Mar2020
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          Yi Lin
          Hongwei Ding
          Yang Zhang
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          Speech-Language-Hearing Center, School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
          Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Science & Center for Neurobehavioral Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
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        Emotions
        Facial expression
        Semantics
        Auditory perception
        Chi-squared test
        Confidence intervals
        Psychology of movement
        Reaction time
        Research funding
        Scale analysis (Psychology)
        Physiological aspects of speech
        Statistics
        Visual perception
        Data analysis
        Phonological awareness
        Data analysis software
        Descriptive statistics
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          Emotions
          Facial expression
          Semantics
          Auditory perception
          Chi-squared test
          Confidence intervals
          Psychology of movement
          Reaction time
          Research funding
          Scale analysis (Psychology)
          Physiological aspects of speech
          Statistics
          Visual perception
          Data analysis
          Phonological awareness
          Data analysis software
          Descriptive statistics
      ab: Purpose: Emotional speech communication involves multisensory integration of linguistic (e.g., semantic content) and paralinguistic (e.g., prosody and facial expressions) messages. Previous studies on linguistic versus paralinguistic salience effects in emotional speech processing have produced inconsistent findings. In this study, we investigated the relative perceptual saliency of emotion cues in crosschannel auditory alone task (i.e., semantics-prosody Stroop task) and cross-modal audiovisual task (i.e., semantics- prosody-face Stroop task). Method: Thirty normal Chinese adults participated in two Stroop experiments with spoken emotion adjectives in Mandarin Chinese. Experiment 1 manipulated auditory pairing of emotional prosody (happy or sad) and lexical semantic content in congruent and incongruent conditions. Experiment 2 extended the protocol to cross-modal integration by introducing visual facial expression during auditory stimulus presentation. Participants were asked to judge emotional information for each test trial according to the instruction of selective attention. Results: Accuracy and reaction time data indicated that, despite an increase in cognitive demand and task complexity in Experiment 2, prosody was consistently more salient than semantic content for emotion word processing and did not take precedence over facial expression. While congruent stimuli enhanced performance in both experiments, the facilitatory effect was smaller in Experiment 2. Conclusion: Together, the results demonstrate the salient role of paralinguistic prosodic cues in emotion word processing and congruence facilitation effect in multisensory integration. Our study contributes tonal language data on how linguistic and paralinguistic messages converge in multisensory speech processing and lays a foundation for further exploring the brain mechanisms of crosschannel/ modal emotion integration with potential clinical applications.
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