METHOD FOR EVALUATING HUMAN EMOTIONAL HEARING Russian patent published in 2004 - IPC

FIELD: psychology, psychophysiology. SUBSTANCE: one should successively present series of verbal and vocal emotionally colored sound signals where emotions of anger, fear, gladness and neutral sounding alternate in sporadic order. Each series of verbal and vocal emotionally colored sound signals should be divided into groups, the quantity of which corresponds to the number of different emotional hearings. In each group, at least, 20 sound signals are suggested obtained out of mentioned emotionally colored sound signals due to their pretransformation. As a result, sound signals presented are of properties characteristic for the variety of emotional hearing for this concrete group. Evaluation of emotional hearing is carried out by the value of the ratio of correctly identified signals to the number of presented ones. EFFECT: higher reliability of detection. 15 cl _