TY - GEN
T1 - Inferring emotional information from vocal and visual cues
T2 - 2011 2nd International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications, CogInfoCom 2011
AU - Riviello, Maria Teresa
AU - Esposito, Anna
AU - Chetouani, Mohamed
AU - Cohen, David
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - The present work reports results of perceptual experiments aimed to explore the human ability to recognize emotional expressions through the visual and auditory channel, investigating if one channel is more effective than the other to infer emotional information and if this effectiveness is affected by the cultural context and in particular by the language. To this aim American, French, and Italian subjects were involved in a comparative analysis of subjective perceptions of emotional states dynamically portrayed by visual and vocal cues, exploiting a cross-modal database of verbal and non-verbal American video clips. What should make the difference is that while one group of participants is native speaker of the language and belongs to the same cultural context of the video-clips used as stimuli (the American English), the other two are not. Results showed that emotional information is affected by the communication mode and that language plays a role.
AB - The present work reports results of perceptual experiments aimed to explore the human ability to recognize emotional expressions through the visual and auditory channel, investigating if one channel is more effective than the other to infer emotional information and if this effectiveness is affected by the cultural context and in particular by the language. To this aim American, French, and Italian subjects were involved in a comparative analysis of subjective perceptions of emotional states dynamically portrayed by visual and vocal cues, exploiting a cross-modal database of verbal and non-verbal American video clips. What should make the difference is that while one group of participants is native speaker of the language and belongs to the same cultural context of the video-clips used as stimuli (the American English), the other two are not. Results showed that emotional information is affected by the communication mode and that language plays a role.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/80052898714
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80052898714
SN - 9781457718069
T3 - 2011 2nd International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications, CogInfoCom 2011
BT - 2011 2nd International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications, CogInfoCom 2011
Y2 - 7 July 2011 through 9 July 2011
ER -