Influence of valence and arousal on emotional prosody processing: ERP study
M Arsic, J Möbes, Z Nikolova, M Wittfoth, R Dengler, C Schröder · Klinische Neurophysiologie · 2008 · Heft 04
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Accurate and fast perception of emotional prosody in ongoing speech stream is cognitive function of high social and clinical importance. According to Russell (1980) each emotion can be defined in a 2-dimensional space in terms of valence (positive vs. negative) and arousal (low vs. high). In the presented study we used event-related brain potentials (ERPs) to investigate how processing of emotional prosody depends upon differences in valence and arousal of presented stimuli. 24 healthy subjects (12 women) participated in our experiment. We presented two-syllable German words spoken by two professional speakers v…