The Quartet Theory of Human Emotion (QT) proposed by Koelsch et al. [1] adds to existing affective models, e.g. by directing more attention to emotional contagion, attachment-related and non-goal-directed emotions. Such an approach seems particularly appropriate to modelling musical emotions, and music is indeed a recurring example in the text, used to illustrate the distinct characteristics of...

Music is used as an important medium for communication in human societies, often times to enhance the emotional meaning of narrative scenarios and ritual events. has a number domain-specific tonal devices doing this, spanning from scale structure harmonic progressions beyond. In order explore neural basis processing music, we carried out activation likelihood estimation (ALE) meta-analysis 20 p...

In translation, choosing appropriate equivalent is essential to convey the right message from source-text to target-text, and one of the issues that may have a determinative role in appropriate equivalent choice is the semantic prosody (SP) behavior of words and the relation existing between the SP of a word and semantic senses (i.e. negativity, positivity or neutrality) of its collocations in ...

In this paper an adaptable acoustical architecture in a multilingual TTS system is presented. The whole architecture is designed to be a data-driven system. Modules comprising text preprocessing, grapheme-to-phoneme conversion, lexical stress detection, OOV-handling, symbolic prosody prediction, acoustic prosody prediction and unit selection with concatenation use machine learning techniques es...

Purpose: This study aimed to identify the nature and extent of receptive and expressive prosodic deficits in children with high-functioning autism (HFA). Method: 31 children with HFA, 72 typically developing controls matched on verbal mental age and 33 adults with normal speech completed the prosody assessment procedure, Profiling Elements of Prosodic Systems in Children (PEPS-C). Results: Chil...

Volume 1—Number 2 © 2007 the Author Journal Compilation © 2007 International Mind, Brain, and Education Society and Blackwell Publishing, Inc. 66 ABSTRACT — In recent years, educators have been looking increasingly to neuroscience to inform their understanding of how children ’ s brain and cognitive development are shaped by their learning experiences. However, while this new interdisciplinary ...