Children’s recognition of emotion in music and speech:

Music & Science

DiannaVidas¹ 

关键词: Affect bursts;    children;    emotion;    music;    pride;    speech prosody;   

DOI  :  10.1177/2059204318762650

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

The acoustic cues that convey emotion in speech are similar to those that convey emotion in music, and recognition of emotion in both of these types of cue recruits overlapping networks in the brain. Given the similarities between music and speech prosody, developmental research is uniquely positioned to determine whether recognition of these cues develops in parallel. In the present study, we asked 60 children aged 6 to 11 years, and 51 university students, to judge the emotions of 10 musical excerpts, 10 inflected speech clips, and 10 affect burst clips. We presented stimuli intended to convey happiness, sadness, anger, fear, and pride. Each emotion was presented twice per type of stimulus. We found that recognition of emotions in music and speech developed in parallel, and adult-levels of recognition develop later for these stimuli than for affect bursts. We also found that sad stimuli were most easily recognised, followed by happiness, fear, and then anger. In addition, we found that recognition of emotion in speech and affect bursts can predict emotion recognition in music stimuli independently of age and musical training. Finally, although proud speech and affect bursts were not well recognised, children aged eight years and older showed adult-like responses in recognition of proud music.

【 授权许可】

CC BY