Yannan Zhang

Beyond semantics: Prosody can shape and modulate listeners’ emotional experience of poetry — A cross-linguistic investigation

Expressive prosody plays an important role in conveying emotion during oral poetry performance. This study investigated whether emotional prosody can serve as a perceptually robust cue for emotion judgment when semantic comprehension is unavailable. Experiment 1 confirmed systema...

Morphological Buffering in Neuro-Architecture: Interactive Effects of Color, Shape, and Area Proportion on Affective Processing

While architectural visual features significantly influence human emotion, the spatiotemporal neuro-mechanisms underlying their interactive effects remain poorly under-researched. This study systematically decoupled the dynamics of indoor spatial perception by investigating the i...