Few studies have related emotion knowledge to positive behavioral outcomes in middle childhood, and none of these included both temperament and cognitive ability in the analysis. In the present study of 166 sevenyear-old children from economically disadvantaged families, we show that temperamental inhibition, cognitive ability, a traditionally studied index of emotion knowledge (emotion recogni...

Feature extraction is still a disputed issue for the recognition of emotions from speech. Differences in features for male and female speakers are a well-known problem and it is established that gender-dependent emotion recognizers perform better than gender-independent ones. We propose a way to improve the discriminative quality of gender-dependent features: The emotion recognition system is p...

Poor attention of drivers towards driving can cause accidents that can harm the driver or surrounding people. The poor attention is not only caused by the drowsiness of the driver but also due to the various emotions/moods (for example sad, angry, joy, pleasure, despair and irritation) of the driver. The emotions are generally measured by analyzing either head movement patterns or eyelid moveme...

In the current study, we aimed to investigate the emotion recognition impairment in Huntington's disease (HD) patients and define whether this deficit is caused by impaired scanning patterns of the face. To achieve this goal, we recorded eye movements during a two-alternative forced-choice emotion recognition task. HD patients in pre-symptomatic (n = 16) and symptomatic (n = 9) disease stages w...

Facial emotion recognition deficits have been widely investigated in individuals with schizophrenia; however, it remains unclear whether these deficits reflect a trait-like vulnerability to schizophrenia pathology present in individuals at risk for the disorder. Although some studies have investigated emotion recognition in this population, findings have been mixed. The current study uses a wel...

BACKGROUND Although many studies have examined executive functions and facial emotion recognition in people with schizophrenia, few of them focused on the correlation between them. Furthermore, their relationship in the siblings of patients also remains unclear. The aim of the present study is to examine the correlation between executive functions and facial emotion recognition in patients with...

This paper presents a novel speech emotion recognition scheme that leverages the individuality of perception. Most conventional methods simply poll multiple listeners and directly model majority decision as perceived emotion. However, perception varies with listener, which forces their single models to create complex mixtures criteria. In order mitigate this problem, we propose majority-voted f...

The paper introduced the present status of speech emotion recognition. In order to improve the single-mode emotion recognition rate, the bimodal fusion method based on speech and facial expression was proposed. The emotional databases of Chinese speech and facial expressions were established with the noise stimulus and movies evoking subjects' emtion. On the foundation, we analyzed the acoustic...

Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) show deficiencies in prosodic abilities, both pragmatic and affective. Their deficiencies in affective prosody have been mostly related to cognitive difficulties in emotion recognition. The current study tested an alternative hypothesis, linking vocal emotion recognition difficulties in ASD to lower level auditory perceptual deficiencies. Twenty ...

We investigate the effect and usefulness of spontaneity in speech (i.e. whether a given speech data is spontaneous or not) in the context of emotion recognition. We hypothesize that emotional content in speech is interrelated with its spontaneity, and thus propose to use spontaneity classification as an auxiliary task to the problem of emotion recognition. We propose two supervised learning set...