Arousal and valence perception recruit distinct acoustic mechanisms

Evidence

While the perception of valence seems to be independent of listening condition and individual hearing loss, wearing hearing aids matters for the interpretation of rating prosodic information related to arousal. Due to this difference between emotion dimensions, future studies on affect perception in hearing aid users should treat perception of arousal and valence separately. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 1377