Title

Non-Voluntary and Voluntary Processing of Emotional Prosody: An Event-Related Potentials Study

Authors

Ilse Wambacq, Montclair State UniversityFollow
Kelly J. Shea-Miller, Seton Hall UniversityFollow
Abuhuziefa Abubakr, New Jersey Neuroscience InstituteFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-1-2004

Abstract

The present study investigated whether event-related potentials (ERPs) reflect non-voluntary vs voluntary processing of emotional prosody. ERPs were obtained while participants processed emotional information non-voluntarily (i.e. while evaluating semantic characteristics of a stimulus) and voluntarily (i.e. while evaluating emotional characteristics of a stimulus). Results suggest that emotional prosody is processed around 160 ms after stimulus onset under non-voluntary processing conditions (when the attention is diverted from the emotional meaning of the tone of voice); and around 360 ms under voluntary processing conditions.The findings support the notion that emotional prosody is processed non-voluntarily in the comprehension of a spoken message.

DOI

10.1097/00001756-200403010-00034

Montclair State University Digital Commons Citation

Wambacq, Ilse; Shea-Miller, Kelly J.; and Abubakr, Abuhuziefa, "Non-Voluntary and Voluntary Processing of Emotional Prosody: An Event-Related Potentials Study" (2004). Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 76.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/communcsci-disorders-facpubs/76