Zei Branka’s scientific contributions

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A place for prosody in a unified model of cognition and emotion
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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 the model is that cognition itself includes three dimensions of affective space: valence, arousal and coping power. The semiological status of prosody is discussed and two examples of our own research are given.

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... Prosody refers to the rhythm, rate and intonation associated with speech and is concerned with how something spoken, rather than what was spoken. Speech prosody has been hypothesized as primary feature for understanding emotion from speech [29], and prosodic features have been used extensively to study affect from speech [33]. The fundamental frequency (intonation) and intensity (loudness) are used as the features representative of the vocal prosody. ...

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Multimodal Interaction Modeling of Child Forensic Interviewing
A place for prosody in a unified model of cognition and emotion