title: Auditory-Induced Emotion Mediates Perceptual Categorization of Everyday Sounds.
abstract: Research has shown that emotion categorization plays an important role in perception and categorization in the visual domain. In the present paper, we investigated the role of auditory-induced emotions for auditory perception. We further investigated whether the emotional responses mediate other perceptual judgments of sounds. In an experiment, participants either rated general dissimilarities between sounds or dissimilarities of specific aspects of sounds. The results showed that the general perceptual salience map could be explained by both the emotional responses to, and perceptual aspects of, the sounds. Importantly, the perceptual aspects were mediated by emotional responses. Together these results show that emotions are an integral part of auditory perception that is used as the intuitive basis for categorizing everyday sounds.
authors: SP, Sveriges Tekniska Forskningsinstitut Borås, Sweden.
authors: Penny
authors: P
authors: Bergman
authors: Department of Behavioral Sciences and Learning, Linköping University Sweden.
authors: Daniel
authors: D
authors: Västfjäll
authors: Department of Psychology, Universidad Loyola Andalucía Seville, Spain.
authors: Ana
authors: A
authors: Tajadura-Jiménez
authors: Department of Behavioral Sciences and Learning, Linköping University Sweden.
authors: Erkin
authors: E
authors: Asutay
keywords: auditory perception; auditory-induced emotion; categorization; everyday sounds; perceptual decisions