Svetlana V. Shinkareva

Knowing and feeling: The role of semantic valence in emotional prosody perception for L2 Chinese learners

Abstract In Mandarin Chinese, the same acoustic feature, pitch, conveys both semantic valence and emotional prosody. The effects of semantic valence on bilingual emotional prosody perception are mixed, with some studies reporting semantic facilitation and others showing interfere...

Neural Representation of Hedonic Valence During Narrative Listening

Abstract Hedonic valence, the intrinsic pleasantness or unpleasantness of an experience, is fundamental to human psychological functioning. Yet, how valence is represented in the brain remains an open question. Functional MRI studies have demonstrated that the brain encodes both...