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The "Hoosier Vocal Emotions Corpus" is a stimulus set of recorded pseudo-words based on the pronunciation rules of English. The corpus contains 73 controlled audio pseudo-words uttered by two actresses in five different emotions (i.e., happiness, sadness, fear, anger, disgust) and in a neutral tone, yielding 1,763 audio files. In Darcy & Fontaine (2019, Behavior Research Methods), viewable at this link: https://rdcu.be/bQk7G, we describe the corpus as well as a validation study of the pseudo-words. A total of 96 native English speakers completed a forced-choice emotion identification task. All emotions were recognized better than chance overall, with substantial variability among the different tokens.
All recordings, including ambiguous stimuli are made freely available on this site, and the recognition rates and the full confusion matrices for each stimulus are provided to assist researchers and clinicians in the selection of stimuli.
The corpus has unique characteristics that can be useful for experimental paradigms requiring controlled stimuli (e.g., EEG or fMRI studies). Stimuli from this corpus could be used by researchers and clinicians to answer a variety of questions, including investigations of emotion processing in individuals with certain temperamental or behavioral characteristics associated with difficulties in emotion recognition (e.g., individuals with psychopathic traits), in bilingual individuals or non-native English speakers, in patients with aphasia, schizophrenia or other mental health disorders (e.g., depression), or in training automatic emotion recognition algorithms.

Ciration: Darcy, I., & Fontaine, N. M. G. (2019). The Hoosier Vocal Emotions Corpus: A validated set of North American English pseudo-words for evaluating emotion processing. Behavior Research Methods, 1-17. doi:10.3758/s13428-019-01288-0 [published online Sep. 4, 2019]
This pre-print version is downloadable but the figures are not high-resolution (to be updated soon).

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Second Language Psycholinguistics Lab - Dr. Isabelle Darcy
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File type	Contents	Download
Corpus main database file	Contains information about each sound file (open access), such as confusion matrices, identification averages, etc. (aggregated)	Click here to download => the corpus database (MS Excel) Click here to download =>the corpus database (csv) Click here to download =>the corpus database (txt)
Acoustic descriptives file	Contains descriptives for acoustic measurements by emotion (open access)	Click here to download => the descriptives of audiofiles (MS Excel)
Zipped file Sounds	Contains all Sounds as .wav files (restricted)	Click here to fill out the form and send us a download request
Zipped file Textgrids	Contains all Textgrids for the sound files as .TextGrid files, for use with the software Praat (restricted)	Click here to fill out the form and send us a download request
Results of the validation study (96 participants); Readme file	Contains the full results database of the identification study	Click here to download => the full results file (txt) Click here to download => the full results file (MS Excel) Click here to download => the full results file (csv) Click here to download => the full results file (SPSS sav)

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a_AG_08_1.wav (anger)

d_AG_08_1.wav (disgust)

This project was funded by an Indiana University grant to Nathalie Fontaine (PI), John E Bates and Isabelle Darcy (co-PIs).
Support was provided by the Department of Criminal Justice; Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences; Department of Second Language Studies (Indiana University, USA) and by the Département de Criminologie (Université de Montréal, Canada)

We acknowledge the collaboration of the following people: Gabriela Cepeda, Peace Han, Franziska Krüger, Trisha Thomas, Chung-Lin Yang, and Joshua Lee.

Hoyniak, C.P., Bates, J.E., Petersen, I.T., Yang, C.-L., Darcy, I., & Fontaine, N.M.G. (2018). Reduced neural responses to vocal fear: A potential biomarker for callous-uncaring traits in early childhood. Developmental Science, 21, e12608. doi: 10.1111/desc.12608