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Experimental Neuropsychology Unit
- Neurocognition of Learning
- Memory and Emotion
- Binding Mechanisms
- Memory in Early Childhood
- Cerebrovascular Dementia
- EEG / ERP
- fMRI / Patient studies
http://www.neuro.psychologie.uni-saarland.de
Sprache und Gefhl: Neuropsychologische Einsichten in die emotionale - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Sprache und Gefhl: Neuropsychologische Einsichten in die emotionale - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Sprache und Gefhl: Neuropsychologische Einsichten in die emotionale Prosodie Axel Mecklinger Arbeitseinheit Experimentelle Neuropsychologie Fachrichtung Psychologie Universitt des Saarlandes Experimental Neuropsychology Unit
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Experimental Neuropsychology Unit
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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Experimental Neuropsychology Unit
Electroencephalographic (EEG) Imaging
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EKP correlates of memory
Frontal old/new effect Parietal old/new effect alt neu
Familiarity Recollection
Mecklinger (2000) Rugg et al (1998) Curran (2000)
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Experimental Neuropsychology Unit Binding in Human Memory:
- Memory for Associations may depend on the
ease of unitisation.
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Probing the Ease of Unitisation with emotionally valenced words
- Emotionally valenced spoken words
- Easy unitization:
Congruent intonation (intra-item binding)
- Difficult unitization:
Neutral intonation (inter-item binding)
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Gender Differences in the Processing
- f Emotional Prosody
“Men don‘t really understand ! There are pronounced gender differences in the time course
- f processing emotional prosody“
Schirmer et al. (2002, 2003)
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Study Study Experimental Design
Task Task: : Remember word and prosody!
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ITI 200 ms 1500 ms 2000 ms
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„ „bestanden bestanden “ “
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Test Test
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Source Source Task Task: : ”congruent“ vs. “neutral” prosody during study 200 ms 300 ms 300 ms 1200 ms 2000 ms 2.Response Window/ITI bestanden bestanden 1. Response Window Old/ Old/new new judgment judgment Source Source judgment judgment
Experimental Design
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Behavioral Data
Item Pr
0,0 0,2 0,4 0,6 0,8 1,0 male female
neutral congruent
Source Performance 0,0 0,2 0,4 0,6 0,8 1,0 male female
Correct responses
neutral congruent
Item memory is better for congruent than for neutral words Source memory: Females outperform males !
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Sensitivity of Familiarity to Associations?
Females: 250-400 ms: congruent > neutral (p<.10)
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ERPs: Source Memory: Males
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Are males less able to discriminate emotional prosody?
- Follow up study:
Classification of intonation: Congruent
- r neutral?
- 12 male and 12 female participants.
Mecklinger et al. (in prep)
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Are males less able to discriminate emotional prosody?
Performance 0,0 0,1 0,2 0,3 0,4 0,5 0,6 0,7 0,8 0,9 1,0 male female Correct Responses neutral congruent Reaction Times (correct responses) 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 male female Time neutral congruent
RTs faster for neutral than for congruent words but: No gender differences in prosody discrimination !
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- Females show better source memory for easy-
(and difficult) to-associate features. They are better capable to unitize features to create a single episodic represenations (at least with emotional prosody).
- Implications for the design of language