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Mark My Words: Tone of Voice Changes Affective Word Representations in Memory

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  • Annett Schirmer

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The present study explored the effect of speaker prosody on the representation of words in memory. To this end, participants were presented with a series of words and asked to remember the words for a subsequent recognition test. During study, words were presented auditorily with an emotional or neutral prosody, whereas during test, words were presented visually. Recognition performance was comparable for words studied with emotional and neutral prosody. However, subsequent valence ratings indicated that study prosody changed the affective representation of words in memory. Compared to words with neutral prosody, words with sad prosody were later rated as more negative and words with happy prosody were later rated as more positive. Interestingly, the participants' ability to remember study prosody failed to predict this effect, suggesting that changes in word valence were implicit and associated with initial word processing rather than word retrieval. Taken together these results identify a mechanism by which speakers can have sustained effects on listener attitudes towards word referents.

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  • Annett Schirmer, 2010. "Mark My Words: Tone of Voice Changes Affective Word Representations in Memory," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 5(2), pages 1-9, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0009080
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009080
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    1. Adi Lausen & Kurt Hammerschmidt, 2020. "Emotion recognition and confidence ratings predicted by vocal stimulus type and prosodic parameters," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 7(1), pages 1-17, December.

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