Happy nonsense phrase

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Channel: McGill University · 2016 · Education

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Marc Pell, a researcher from McGill University wanted to know how the brain responds to emotions expressed through vocalizations compared to spoken language. Here are some of the sounds/ nonsense phrases he played to participants in his experiments.

Vocalizations (Montreal affective voices):
Belin, P., Fillion-Bilodeau, S., & Gosselin, F. (2008). The Montreal affective voices:  a validated set of nonverbal affect bursts for research on auditory affective processing. Behavior Research Methods, 40, 531-539.
 
Speech recording inventory:
Pell, M.D., Paulmann, S., Dara, C., Alasseri, A., & Kotz, S.A. (2009). Factors in the recognition of vocally expressed emotions: a comparison of four languages. Journal of Phonetics, 37, 417-435.

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