Categorical perception of vocal emotion (Chen et al., 2024)

<p dir="ltr"><b>Purpose: </b>Categorical perception (CP) manifests in various aspects of human cognition. While there is mounting evidence for CP in facial emotions, CP in vocal emotions remains understudied. The current study attempted to test whether individuals with a...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Yu Chen (14199022) (author)
مؤلفون آخرون: Ting Wang (19831125) (author), Hongwei Ding (14199026) (author)
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Hongwei Ding (14199026)
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Ting Wang (19831125)
Hongwei Ding (14199026)
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Ting Wang (19831125)
Hongwei Ding (14199026)
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Chinese languages
Child language acquisition
Phonetics and speech science
age
gender
categorical perception
vocal emotions
tonal language background
human cognition
facial emotions
plasticity
perceptual categories
identification performance
discrimination performance
Mandarin
children
speech stimuli
continuum
resynthesized Mandarin disyllabic words
clinical populations
continuous sensory inputs
discrete categories
cognitively efficient
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Categorical perception of vocal emotion (Chen et al., 2024)
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description <p dir="ltr"><b>Purpose: </b>Categorical perception (CP) manifests in various aspects of human cognition. While there is mounting evidence for CP in facial emotions, CP in vocal emotions remains understudied. The current study attempted to test whether individuals with a tonal language background perceive vocal emotions categorically and to examine how factors such as gender and age influence the plasticity of these perceptual categories.</p><p dir="ltr"><b>Method: </b>This study examined the identification and discrimination performance of 24 Mandarin-speaking children (14 boys and 10 girls) and 32 adults (16 males and 16 females) when they were presented with three vocal emotion continua. Speech stimuli in each continuum consisted of 11 resynthesized Mandarin disyllabic words.</p><p dir="ltr"><b>Results:</b> CP phenomena were detected when Mandarin participants perceived vocal emotions. We further found the modulating effect of age and gender in vocal emotion categorization.</p><p dir="ltr"><b>Conclusions: </b>Our results demonstrate for the first time that a categorical strategy is used by Mandarin speakers when perceiving vocal emotions. Furthermore, our findings reveal that the categorization ability of vocal emotions follows a prolonged course of development and the maturation patterns differ across genders. This study opens a promising line of research for investigating how sensory features are mapped to higher order perception and provides implications for our understanding of clinical populations characterized by altered emotional processing.</p><p dir="ltr"><b>Supplemental Material S1.</b> Post-hoc analysis of the identification results.</p><p dir="ltr"><b>Supplemental Material S2.</b> Post-hoc analysis of the discrimination results.</p><p dir="ltr"><b>Supplemental Material S3.</b> List of thirty-two dissyllabic words used in the screening test.</p><p dir="ltr"><b>Supplemental Material S4.</b> Accuracy and intensity ratings of disyllabic words in the screening test.</p><p dir="ltr">Chen, Y., Wang, T., & Ding, H. (2024). Effect of age and gender on categorical perception of vocal emotion under tonal language background. <i>Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research</i>, <i>67</i>(11), 4567–4583. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_JSLHR-23-00716" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_JSLHR-23-00716</a></p>
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spelling Categorical perception of vocal emotion (Chen et al., 2024)Yu Chen (14199022)Ting Wang (19831125)Hongwei Ding (14199026)Chinese languagesChild language acquisitionPhonetics and speech scienceagegendercategorical perceptionvocal emotionstonal language backgroundhuman cognitionfacial emotionsplasticityperceptual categoriesidentification performancediscrimination performanceMandarinchildrenspeech stimulicontinuumresynthesized Mandarin disyllabic wordsclinical populationscontinuous sensory inputsdiscrete categoriescognitively efficient<p dir="ltr"><b>Purpose: </b>Categorical perception (CP) manifests in various aspects of human cognition. While there is mounting evidence for CP in facial emotions, CP in vocal emotions remains understudied. The current study attempted to test whether individuals with a tonal language background perceive vocal emotions categorically and to examine how factors such as gender and age influence the plasticity of these perceptual categories.</p><p dir="ltr"><b>Method: </b>This study examined the identification and discrimination performance of 24 Mandarin-speaking children (14 boys and 10 girls) and 32 adults (16 males and 16 females) when they were presented with three vocal emotion continua. Speech stimuli in each continuum consisted of 11 resynthesized Mandarin disyllabic words.</p><p dir="ltr"><b>Results:</b> CP phenomena were detected when Mandarin participants perceived vocal emotions. We further found the modulating effect of age and gender in vocal emotion categorization.</p><p dir="ltr"><b>Conclusions: </b>Our results demonstrate for the first time that a categorical strategy is used by Mandarin speakers when perceiving vocal emotions. Furthermore, our findings reveal that the categorization ability of vocal emotions follows a prolonged course of development and the maturation patterns differ across genders. This study opens a promising line of research for investigating how sensory features are mapped to higher order perception and provides implications for our understanding of clinical populations characterized by altered emotional processing.</p><p dir="ltr"><b>Supplemental Material S1.</b> Post-hoc analysis of the identification results.</p><p dir="ltr"><b>Supplemental Material S2.</b> Post-hoc analysis of the discrimination results.</p><p dir="ltr"><b>Supplemental Material S3.</b> List of thirty-two dissyllabic words used in the screening test.</p><p dir="ltr"><b>Supplemental Material S4.</b> Accuracy and intensity ratings of disyllabic words in the screening test.</p><p dir="ltr">Chen, Y., Wang, T., & Ding, H. (2024). Effect of age and gender on categorical perception of vocal emotion under tonal language background. <i>Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research</i>, <i>67</i>(11), 4567–4583. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_JSLHR-23-00716" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_JSLHR-23-00716</a></p>2024-10-17T19:21:28ZTextOnline resourceinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersiontext10.23641/asha.27204057.v1https://figshare.com/articles/online_resource/Categorical_perception_of_vocal_emotion_Chen_et_al_2024_/27204057CC BY 4.0info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:figshare.com:article/272040572024-10-17T19:21:28Z
spellingShingle Categorical perception of vocal emotion (Chen et al., 2024)
Yu Chen (14199022)
Chinese languages
Child language acquisition
Phonetics and speech science
age
gender
categorical perception
vocal emotions
tonal language background
human cognition
facial emotions
plasticity
perceptual categories
identification performance
discrimination performance
Mandarin
children
speech stimuli
continuum
resynthesized Mandarin disyllabic words
clinical populations
continuous sensory inputs
discrete categories
cognitively efficient
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title Categorical perception of vocal emotion (Chen et al., 2024)
title_full Categorical perception of vocal emotion (Chen et al., 2024)
title_fullStr Categorical perception of vocal emotion (Chen et al., 2024)
title_full_unstemmed Categorical perception of vocal emotion (Chen et al., 2024)
title_short Categorical perception of vocal emotion (Chen et al., 2024)
title_sort Categorical perception of vocal emotion (Chen et al., 2024)
topic Chinese languages
Child language acquisition
Phonetics and speech science
age
gender
categorical perception
vocal emotions
tonal language background
human cognition
facial emotions
plasticity
perceptual categories
identification performance
discrimination performance
Mandarin
children
speech stimuli
continuum
resynthesized Mandarin disyllabic words
clinical populations
continuous sensory inputs
discrete categories
cognitively efficient