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This chapter reports the results of perceptual experiments that involved Hungarian subjects assessing emotional stimuli extracted from Italian (a country-specific language ) and American English (as a global spread language) live recording movie scenes. The stimuli concern some of the basic emotions of happiness, fear, anger, surprise, sadness, as well as a language specific emotion such as sarcasm/irony, are portrayed through the mute video, audio alone, and combined audio/video mode. The main goal was to investigate whether the visual channel is more effective than the auditory one to infer emotional information and whether this effectiveness is affected by the cultural context and in particular by the language. Results show that Hungarian subjects are more accurate in inferring emotional information from visual rather than from vocal cues. Language plays a role in the recognition task since they perform better on the American rather than Italian vocal expressions. In addition, the audiovisual presentation of the emotional did not significantly improve subjects’ recognition accuracy. Finally, among the basic emotions anger seems to be perceptually privileged.
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Riviello, M. T., Esposito, A., & Vicsi, K. (2012). A cross-cultural study on the perception of emotions: How Hungarian subjects evaluate American and Italian emotional expressions. In A. Esposito, A. M. Esposito, A. Vinciarelli, R. Hoffman, & V. C. Müller (Eds.) “Behavioural cognitive systems”, cognitive behavioural systems, LNCS 7403, 424–433. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer. ISBN: 978-3-642-34583-8. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-34584-5_38.
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Riviello, M.T., Esposito, A. (2016). Results for Hungarian Participants. In: On the Perception of Dynamic Emotional Expressions: A Cross-cultural Comparison. SpringerBriefs in Cognitive Computation, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-0887-4_6
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