ITRW on Speech and Emotion September 5-7, 2000 Newcastle, Northern Ireland, UK

Multimodal emotion perception: Analogous to speech processes

Dominic W. Massaro

Perceptual Science Laboratory, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA

The fuzzy logical model of perception (FLMP) has been successful in accounting for a variety of unimodal and multimodal aspects of speech perception. This same framework has been extended to account for the perception of emotion from the face and the voice. The FLMP accurately describes how perceivers evaluate and integrate these sources of information to determine the affect signaled by the talker. This same research falsifies emotion processing as following a specialized analysis such as holistic or categorical perception.

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Bibliographic reference.  Massaro, Dominic W. (2000): "Multimodal emotion perception: Analogous to speech processes", Invited review paper, In SpeechEmotion-2000, 114-121.