Background Several variables have been evidenced for their association with violent
reoffending. Resultant interventions have been suggested, yet the rate of recidivism remains …

Objective Fibromyalgia (FM) is characterized by pervasive pain‐related symptomatology
and high levels of negative affect. Mind–body treatments such as cognitive behavioral …

Oro-facial and speech motor control disorders represent a variety of speech and language
pathologies. Early identification of such problems is important and carries clinical …

A consolidated approach to the study of the mental representation of word meanings has
consisted in contrasting different domains of knowledge, broadly reflecting the abstract …

Objective Pain catastrophizing is a common feature of chronic pain, including fibromyalgia
(FM), and is strongly associated with amplified pain severity and disability. While previous …

Purpose Our aim is to explore the complex interplay of prosody (tone of speech) and
semantics (verbal content) in the perception of discrete emotions in speech. Method We …

Older adults often find it more difficult than younger adults to attend to a target talker when
there are other people talking. One possible reason for this difficulty is that it may take them …

Purpose We aim to identify the possible sources for age-related differences in the perception
of emotion in speech, focusing on the distinct roles of semantics (words) and prosody (tone …

Advancements in real-time rendering technology have continued to develop rapidly over the
course of the last decade. Consequently, human likenesses have been represented virtually …

Purpose: The Test for Rating Emotions in Speech (T-RES) has been developed in order to
assess the processing of emotions in spoken language. In this tool, spoken sentences …