Speech and Autonomic Arousal

Human talkers find some interactions and activities more emotionally or mentally draining than others. Signals like heart rate and electrodermal activity index an individual's changing state of arousal.

Physiological signals and speech signals can now be recorded simultaneously for long periods of time, in and out of the lab.

ZevinLab has partenered with a language justice organization called AntenaLA to design and carry out a study that uses ambulatory physiological measures to relate the dynamics of autonomic arousal to the global and local properties of simultaneous interpretation of emotionally loaded speech.