Effect
of Repetitive Presentation of Unknown Speech on Ear Differences
in Emotionality Evaluation
T. Hatta |
Effects
of repetitive listening to unknown speech (artificially prepared)
on ear differences in emotional evaluation were examined with normal
twenty-five university students. The subjects were given unknown
speech in which white noise was played to one ear and artificially
prepared unknown speech to the other ear nine times in total for
two weeks, and were asked to evaluate both category of emotonal tone
(positive or negative) and strength of emotionality. The results
revealed following points; 1) Evaluation of emotional tone strength
changed with repetitive listening. Especially, for negative tone
speech, the strength of emotionality increased with repetitive listening
in the left ear while no change was shown in the right ear. On the
other hand, for positive tone speech, the strength of emotionality
did not change with repetitive listening in both ears, 2) In some
cases, evaluation of emotional tone category changed with repetitive
listening. In these cases, there was a tendency that categorization
into negative tone shifted to positive categorization in the left
ear. These findings are discussed in relation to the differential
hemisphere specialization for unknown speech emotionality evaluation.
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