Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Articles on Cross-modal Emotions




Music and movement share a dynamic structure that supports universal expressions of emotion

http://intl.pnas.org/content/110/1/70
Basic emotions expressed through music and movement are cross-cultural

Cross-cultural recognition of basic emotions through nonverbal emotional vocalizations
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/01/11/0908239106
Basic emotions expressed through voice is cross-cultural


Emotion Recognition through Multiple Modalities: Face, Body Gesture, Speech

http://rd.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-540-85099-1_8

Book: Affect and Emotion in Human-Computer Interaction
http://rd.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-540-85099-1/page/1

Articles on Emotions in Child Development

Lots of new information from Child Development journals:

Preschoolers Use Emotion in Speech to Learn New Words
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cdev.12074/abstract
Kids were able to recall only when negative affect was used?

Longitudinal Relations Among Language Skills, Anger Expression, and Regulatory Strategies in Early Childhood
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cdev.12027/full
Better language skills made kids less prone to expressing anger? Perhaps because they could express their feelings using words instead of other expressions (face, tantrum, etc?)