The Space Between Us is a performance piece for vocals, piano and live electronics using a Brain-Computer Music Interface system currently in development. The brainwaves of one performer and one audience member are measured throughout the performance and the system generates a real-time score mapped to emotional features associated with the brain signals. The system not only aims to portray emo...

The Space Between Us is a performance piece for vocals, piano and live electronics using a Brain-Computer Music Interface system currently in development. The brainwaves of one performer and one audience member are measured throughout the performance and the system generates a real-time score mapped to emotional features associated with the brain signals. The system not only aims to portray emo...

Both affective states and personality traits shape how we perceive the social world and interpret emotions. The literature on affective priming has mostly focused on brief influences of emotional stimuli and emotional states on perceptual and cognitive processes. Yet this approach does not fully capture more dynamic processes at the root of emotional states, with such states lingering beyond th...

A preliminary study on the use of an adaptive display for treating emotional disorders is presented. The purpose of this study is twofold: to obtain a virtual environment that adapts to the emotional states of the user at each moment and to analyze the possibility of using it for the treatment of emotional disorders. Until now, different types of adaptive displays have been developed and studie...

Speech carries information not only about the lexical content, but also about the age, gender, signature and emotional state of the speaker. Speech in different emotional states is accompanied bydistinct changes in the productionmechanism. In this chapter, we present a review of analysis methods used for emotional speech. In particular, we focus on the issues in data collection, feature represe...

In speaker recognition applications, the changes of emotional states are main causes of errors. The ongoing work described in this contribution attempts to enhance the performance of automatic speaker recognition (ASR) systems on emotional speech. Two procedures that only need a small quantity of affective training data are applied to ASR task, which is very practical in real-world situations. ...

Schizophrenia patients might experience difficulties in applying two widely used emotion regulation strategies, reappraisal and suppression. We investigated the relationships among emotion regulation strategies, alexithymia (i.e. inability to identify and verbalize feelings) and the role of pre-morbid IQ on alexithymia in schizophrenia. Participants comprised 31 schizophrenia patients and 44 he...

Individuals, who work in an organization, develop a shared perception that influences their behavior and emotions. This perception guides operators in the interpretation of the main business processes and in the modes of decision-making. The Italian Ministry of Public Administration in 2004 issued a directive to improve the organizational well-being and the emotional state of the environment in...

The main objectives of this study were (a) to elucidate young tennis players' use of music to manipulate emotional states, and (b) to present a model grounded in present data to illustrate this phenomenon and to stimulate further research. Anecdotal evidence suggests that music listening is used regularly by elite athletes as a preperformance strategy, but only limited empirical evidence corrob...