Emotional prosody: sex differences in sensitivity to speech melody.
Emotional prosody is defined as the ability to express emotions through variations of different parameters of the human speech, such as pitch contour, intensity and duration. A recent study has discovered clear differences between men and women in the time course of emotional prosodic processing. There are several interpretations of these intriguing results that hold promise for future studies on language comprehension.
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Institute for Physiological and Cognitive Neurosciences, Language and Music Group, CNRS-INPC, 31 Chemin Joseph Aiguier, 13402 Cedex 20, Marseille, France
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