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Background:

  • Vocalists often exhibit expressive head movements during speech and song.
  • The relationship between vocalists' emotions, head motion, and perceived emotion is not well understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if intended emotions influence vocalists' head movements.
  • To determine if head movements affect emotion perception in vocalizations.

Main Methods:

  • Vocalists performed speech and song tasks with varying emotional intentions (happy, sad, neutral).
  • Motion capture technology recorded head movements during vocalizations.
  • Observers identified emotions from silent videos of head movements.

Main Results:

  • Head movements significantly differed across emotional intentions, independent of speech or song modality.
  • Head motion related to emotion occurred both during and outside of vocalization.
  • Observers accurately identified intended emotions from head movements alone.

Conclusions:

  • Head movements effectively encode emotional intent in vocalists.
  • Auditory and visual cues from head motion contribute to emotion recognition.
  • Findings have implications for understanding vocal behavior and developing emotion recognition technologies.