Vocal Emotional Communication

理解言语情感沟通（VEC）具有健康、社会、教育、经济和政治效益。结果包括：发展了澳大利亚对（韵律）语言节奏中情绪信号敏感性的测试；音乐和言语中情感信号的表征了解音乐和语言韵律方面的先天性缺陷；VEC运动规划和面部表情的认知基础研究以及动作捕捉研究的国际化。潜在的好处包括为有社会适应问题的个人或涉及敏感的跨文化互动的人提供VEC培训计划；加强音乐教学课程的教学；并构建有效的预警和报警信号。

Understanding vocal emotional communication (VEC) has health, social, educational, economic and political benefits. Outcomes include: Development of an Australian test of sensitivity to emotional signals in (prosody) speech phythms; Characterisation of emotional signals in music and speech; Understanding congenital impairments in music and speech prosody; Elucidating the cognitive basis of motor planning and facial expressions in VEC; and internationalisation of motion capture research. Potential benefits include training programs in VEC for individuals with social adjustment problems or for people involved in sensitive cross-cultural interactions; enhancement of music pedagogy programs; and construction of effective warning and alert signals.