Branka Zei

Vox Institute · Psycho linguistics and social psychology (emotions)

Foreign Language Learning: When Prosody Precedes Lexical Meaning Branka Zei Pollermann Vox Institute Speech prosody (rhythm, intonation, duration) constitutes the suprasegmental framework of both speech production and speech perception. On the production side, it determines the phonetic realisations of phoneme durations, stress patterns, syntagmat...

XXIII Annual Pacific Voice Conference & VI World Voice Consortium Congress Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California, USA Abstract: EMOTIONAL CONTAGION VIA PHYSICAL SYNCHRONIZATION WITH EXTERNAL RHYTHMS TRANSMITTED BY VOICE AND SPEECH PROSODY: ARTISTIC APPLICATIONS Branka Zei Pollermann, Vox Institute, Geneva, Switzerland Purpose : To descri...

Anciennement chercheuse à l'Université de Genève (Département de psycholinguistique) et aux Hôpitaux universitaires de Genève (Département de médecine psychosomatique) La parole-comme la musique-se déroule dans le temps. Sa structure prosodique la rend intelligible au niveau morpho-phonologique. Dans le flux verbal, le récepteur se sert des marques...

Abstract 1782 Karasek's demand / control model, emotions and health Branka ZEI-POLLERMANN, PHD, Vox Institute-Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, Pierre Jacot, MA, Centre d'education permanente, Mont-sur-Lausanne,, Switzerland Purpose: to measure the relation between Karasek's demand/control model, the frequency of emotional experiences at work, self-r...

Emotional blunting can be found after cerebellar lesions. However, the mechanism of such a modification is not clear. We present a patient with emotional flattening and increased risk taking after left cerebellar infarct who had an impaired autonomic reactivity to negative as compared with positive reinforcement. This impairment was demonstrated by...

IntroductionPsychophysiological Determinants of Emotional Speech PatternsIntra and Inter-Emotion Pattering of Acoustic ParametersConclusion AcknowledgementsReferences

This research explores the role of the physiological component of emotional arousal. The concept of autonomic balance is presented theoretically and operationalized through measurement of heart rate variability (HRV). The role of the latter is examined in its relation to emotional arousal, as reflected in both subjective feeling and nonverbal vocal...

This research explores the role of the physiological component of emotional arousal. The concept of autonomic balance is presented theoretically and operationalized through measurement of heart rate variability (HRV). The role of the latter is examined in its relation to emotional arousal, as reflected in both subjective feeling and nonverbal vocal...

Speech consists not only of linguistic elements such as phonemes - it also contains features which carry nonlinguistic information. These features, e.g. voice quality and prosody, either occur spontaneously and are related to the speaker's emotional and/or physiological state or are produced intentionally and related to the speaker's attitudes or i...

The relationship between cognition and emotion has been one of major stumbling blocks in defining the concept of emotion. We argue that a unified model of cognition and emotion based on interactionist epistemology would allow to unambiguously define emotion and thus facilitate research in affective aspects of speech communication. The main tenet of...