The development of the ability to read emotion by content and prosody in the language
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Chungbuk National University Graduate School, Department of Psychology, Republic of Korea
People use a lot of cues to read other's mind. To date many studies have been using behavior and facial expression as a cue to read other's emotion. But prosody of language could be an important cue, too. Prosody of language is expressed differently by different kind of emotion, which is universal in every culture. Language contains verbal cue(content) and voice cue(prosody). In case that the content conveys conflicting information with the prosody, to infer others' mind, it's necessary to separate the prosody from content and focus on the prosody. The aim of this study is to investigate how the ability to read emotion in the prosody develops according to the age. The task presenting Neutral sentence containing happy prosody and fear prosody(condition1), happy sentence containing happy prosody & fear sentence containing fear prosody(condition2) and happy sentence containing fear prosody & fear sentence containing happy prosody(condition3) was conducted by 7-year, 9-year and adult. EQ, SQ and AQ questionnaires were conducted by adults to investigate whether the ability to read emotion in the prosody is relevant to systemizing, empathizing and autism spectrum tendencies. Every response inferring emotion from the prosody scored 1 and every response inferring emotion from the content scored 0. The result showed condition 1,2,3 has the main effect according to the age. In condition 1,2 7-year children performed worse than 9-year children and adults, while in condition 3 more 9-year children infer the emotion by the prosody than 7-year children. The result of this study indicated that there was a difference in the ability to infer emotion by content and prosody between 7-year children and 9-year children & adults.
Conference:
Neuroinformatics 2010 , Kobe, Japan, 30 Aug - 1 Sep, 2010.
Presentation Type:
Poster Presentation
Topic:
Clinical neuroscience
Citation:
Park
Y
(2010). The development of the ability to read emotion by content and prosody in the language.
Front. Neurosci.
Conference Abstract:
Neuroinformatics 2010 .
doi: 10.3389/conf.fnins.2010.13.00099
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Received:
14 Jun 2010;
Published Online:
14 Jun 2010.
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Correspondence:
Young-ok Park, Chungbuk National University Graduate School, Department of Psychology, Cheongju, Republic of Korea, okiikiiki@gmail.com