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Perception of emotions in speech: The integration of two channels, prosody and semantics
What is it about?
Why is it important?
We provide a comprehensive tool, T-RES, to assess listeners' ability to decipher the emotional content of prosodic information and semantic content, separately. The tool also gauges the ability for listeners to selectively ignore one channel while instructed to focus on the other. Most importantly, the tool measures how listeners integrate the two channels - do they weigh one channel more than the other (as found in our study), or do they weigh both similarly. This tool is important as difficulty in processing emotions in speech has been found to have a major detrimental impact on the quality of life in various populations. The discomfort and frustration resulting from impaired communication are often associated with lower quality of life, significant feelings of depression and impoverished interpersonal relations.