Emotions amplify speaker–listener neural alignment

Neural basis of emotions - Scholarpedia

In modern neurobiological terms, emotions are complex programs of actions triggered by the presence of certain stimuli, external to the body or from within the body, when such stimuli activate certain neural systems. Feelings of emotion, on the other hand, are perceptions of the emotional action programs. The (1) triggering systems, the (2) neural systems which execute the action program, and (...

Communicating emotions in robotics: Towards a model of emotional alignment

The expectations of emotional displays play an important role in human-human and human-robot interaction in order to achieve a constructive interaction. However, as we argue in this position paper, current state-of-the-art social robotic models of emotion still neglect the communicational aspects of emotions. Based on different psychological models of emotion, we argue that an intra-personal ac...

F0 range and peak alignment across speakers and emotions

We present an analysis of F0 range and peak alignment in emotional speech from a heterogeneous group of speakers varying in age and gender. Both speaker and emotion had a strong effect on F0 range. Despite these large changes in the F0 trajectory, peak alignment was remarkably stable. Using the Linear Alignment Model (LAM) [1], we show that the effects on alignment of emotion and speaker differ...

Emotions as Semantic Pointers : Constructive Neural Mechanisms

Discrete Neural Signatures of Basic Emotions.

Categorical models of emotions posit neurally and physiologically distinct human basic emotions. We tested this assumption by using multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) to classify brain activity patterns of 6 basic emotions (disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, anger, and surprise) in 3 experiments. Emotions were induced with short movies or mental imagery during functional magnetic resonance im...