... the skipped trials as incorrect does not change the pattern of results in the study. The selection of facial configurations and audio prompts on each trial was randomized with the constraint that they were sampled evenly across trials. emotion word understanding facial expression body language...

... individuals focus their attention on evaluation of facial expressions, they implicitly integrate nonverbal emotional vocal cues (i.e. hedonic valence or emotional tone of accompanying sentences), and devote less attention to their semantic content. While the impairing effect of happy prosody on recall may...