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EEG oscillations reflect task effects for the change detection in vocal emotion

Authors: Xuhai Chen, Zhihui Pan, Ping Wang, Lijie Zhang, Jiajin Yuan

Published in: Cognitive Neurodynamics | Issue 3/2015

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How task focus affects recognition of change in vocal emotion remains in debate. In this study, we investigated the role of task focus for change detection in emotional prosody by measuring changes in event-related electroencephalogram (EEG) power. EEG was recorded for prosodies with and without emotion change while subjects performed emotion change detection task (explicit) and visual probe detection task (implicit). We found that vocal emotion change induced theta event-related synchronization during 100–600 ms regardless of task focus. More importantly, vocal emotion change induced significant beta event-related desynchronization during 400–750 ms under explicit instead of implicit task condition. These findings suggest that the detection of emotional changes is independent of task focus, while the task focus effect in neural processing of vocal emotion change is specific to the integration of emotional deviations.

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Title: EEG oscillations reflect task effects for the change detection in vocal emotion
Authors: Xuhai Chen
Zhihui Pan
Ping Wang
Lijie Zhang
Jiajin Yuan
Publication date: 01-06-2015
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: Cognitive Neurodynamics / Issue 3/2015
Print ISSN: 1871-4080
Electronic ISSN: 1871-4099
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11571-014-9326-9

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