C oncerning emotion’s influence on memory, the psychologist Henri Piéron observed that ‘‘a violent emotion may reinforce memory, and give rise to indelible associations’’ (1). Our common experience (typically with emotions less intense) also tells us that emotional events tend to be well remembered, and extensive scientific evidence confirms anecdotal observations that emotional arousal can str...

Speech and emotion recognition improve the quality of human computer interaction and allow more easy to use interfaces for every level of user in software applications. In this study, we have developed the emotion recognition neural network (ERNN) to classify the voice signals for emotion recognition. The ERNN has 128 input nodes, 20 hidden neurons, and three summing output nodes. A set of 9793...

In their target article, Sabini and Silver claim “that there are fewer [emotional] mental states than there might seem to be, but that they are related to language and its use in more complicated ways than had been thought” (this issue). They describe an unspoken assumption among psychologists that every emotion word in a given language corresponds to a different “mental state.” Sabini and Silv...

Three studies assessed the relationship between language and the perception of emotion. The authors predicted and found that the accessibility of emotion words influenced participants' speed or accuracy in perceiving facial behaviors depicting emotion. Specifically, emotion words were either primed or temporarily made less accessible using a semantic satiation procedure. In Studies 1 and 2, par...

Recent behavioral and neuroimaging studies demonstrate that labeling one's emotional experiences and perceptions alters those states. Here, we used a comprehensive meta-analysis of the neuroimaging literature to systematically explore whether the presence of emotion words in experimental tasks has an impact on the neural representation of emotional experiences and perceptions across studies. Us...

This paper proposes an automatic approach to build Chinese emotion lexicon based on WordNet-Affect which is a widely-used English emotion lexicon resource developed on WordNet. The approach consists of three steps, namely translation, filtering and extension. Initially, all English words in WordNet-Affect synsets are translated into Chinese words. Thereafter, with the help of Chinese synonyms d...

Recall of emotion words is superior to neutral words. Prior work reported in this journal (Anooshian & Hertel, 1994) found that this effect was absent in a second language. Words in a second language may thus lack the emotional associations of words acquired in childhood. To determine whether memory probes may be generally useful for assessing emotionality effects in a first vs. a second langua...

Abstract Words used to describe emotion are influenced by experience, context and culture; nevertheless, research studies often constrain participant response opt i ons. We explored the influence of options on how people conceptualise words in two cross-sectional studies. In Study 1 participants rated degree which a large set ( n = 497) fit five basic categories – Happy, Sad, Angry, Fearful, Ne...