Depressed people may have difficulty following emotional speech

Friday, May 22, 2015 - 08:00 in Psychology & Sociology

Psychoacoustics identifies five basic types of emotional speech: angry, fearful, happy, sad and neutral. In order to fully understand what's happening with speech perception, a research team studied how depressed individuals perceive these different kinds of emotional speech in multi-tonal environments.

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