The evaluation of emotional prosody by students majoring in scientific and humanistic subjects
Journal Title: Acta Neuropsychologica - Year 2012, Vol 10, Issue 1
Abstract
[b]Background: [/b]Although disturbances of prosody are known to be a common symptom of damage to the right hemisphere, little research has been done on the reception of emotional prosody in healthy subjects. The goal of this study was to examine possible differences in the reception of emotional prosody in students from different fields of study. [b]Material/Methods: [/b]We studied 50 students from the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland, divided into two groups: Group H, consisting primarily of language students, and Group M, consisting of students majoring in mathematics or computer science. The test (TOPE-1) involved listening to four sentences spoken by a native speaker of Chinese, expressing fear, sadness, anger, and joy, and identifying the emotion (first part); then, the subjects were asked to match the recordings to translations of the respective texts (second part).[b]Results: [/b]Group M generally performed better than Group H, but the differences were statistically significant only in certain comparisons. The overall performance in the first task was much lower than in the second in both groups. Microgenetic theory can be applied to interpret the results.[b]Conclusions: [/b]The task of researching emotional prosody is methodologically difficult, and requires interdisciplinary cooperation. The difficulties posed by the first task for both groups strongly imply that at least some aspects of emotional prosody are language-specific.
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Weronika MacQueen, Bruce MacQueen
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