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Petri Laukka

FD, docent, forskarassistent

Research interests

My main research interests are emotion and music psychology. Current research projects include: (a) cross-cultural communication of affect in speech and music, (b) expression of affect in spontaneous speech, (c) functions of music in everyday listening, (d) individual differences in emotion recognition ability (e.g., due to personality, age, or disorders), and e) neural correlates of the perception and production of vocal affect expressions.

Professional Background

Education

Affiliations

Recent Publications

Gold, R., Butler, P. D., Revheim, N., Leitman, D. I., Hansen, J. A., Gur, R. C., Kantrowitz, J. T., Laukka, P., Juslin, P. N., Silipo, G. S., & Javitt, D. C. (in press). Auditory emotion recognition impairments in schizophrenia: Relationship to acoustic features and cognition. American Journal of Psychiatry.

Laukka, P., & Elfenbein, H. A. (in press). Emotion appraisal dimensions can be inferred from vocal expressions. Social Psychological and Personality Science.

Laukka, P., & Quick, L. (in press). Emotional and motivational uses of music in sports and exercise: A questionnaire study among athletes. Psychology of Music.

Laukka, P., Audibert, N., & Aubergé, V. (in press). Exploring the determinants of the graded structure of vocal emotion expressions. Cognition and Emotion.

Kantrowitz, J. T., Leitman, D. I., Lehrfeld, J. M., Laukka, P., Juslin, P. N., Butler, P. D., Silipo, G., & Javitt, D. C. (in press). Reduction in tonal discriminations predicts receptive emotion processing deficits in schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder. Schizophrenia Bulletin.

Leitman, D. I., Wolf, D. H., Laukka, P., Ragland, J. D., Valdez, J. N., Turetsky, B. I., Gur, R. E., & Gur, R. C. (2011). Not pitch perfect: Sensory contributions to affective communication impairment in schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry, 70, 611-618.

Neiberg, D., Laukka, P., & Elfenbein, H. A. (2011). Intra-, inter-, and cross-cultural classification of vocal affect. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2011 (pp. 1581-1584). Florence, Italy: ISCA.

Laukka, P., Åhs, F., Furmark, T., & Fredrikson, M. (2011). Neurofunctional correlates of expressed vocal affect in social phobia. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 11, 413-425.

Juslin, P. N., Liljeström, S., Laukka, P., Västfjäll, D., & Lundqvist, L.-O. (2011). Emotional reactions to music in a nationally representative sample of Swedish adults: Prevalence and causal influences. Musicae Scientiae, 15, 174-207. (Special issue on “Music and emotion”)

Laukka, P., Neiberg, D., Forsell, M., Karlsson, I., & Elenius, K. (2011). Expression of affect in spontaneous speech: Acoustic correlates, perception, and automatic detection of irritation and resignation. Computer Speech and Language, 25, 84-104. (Special issue on “Affective speech in real-life interactions”)

Neiberg, D., Laukka, P., & Ananthakrishnan, G. (2010). Classification of affect in speech using normalized time-frequency cepstra. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Speech Prosody. Chicago, IL: ISCA. Paper no. 100071.

Laukka, P., Elfenbein, H. A., Chui, W., Thingujam, N. S., Iraki, F. K., Rockstuhl, T., & Althoff, J. (2010). Presenting the VENEC corpus: Development of a cross-cultural corpus of vocal emotion expressions and a novel method of annotating emotion appraisals. In Proceedings of the LREC 2010 Workshop on Corpora for Research on Emotion and Affect (pp. 53-57). Valletta, Malta: ELRA.

Leitman, D. I., Laukka, P., Juslin, P. N., Saccente, E., Butler, P., & Javitt, D. C. (2010). Getting the cue: Sensory contributions to auditory emotion recognition impairments in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 36, 545-556.

Leitman, D. I., Wolf, D. H., Ragland, J. D., Laukka, P., Loughead, J., Valdez, J. N., Javitt, D. C., Turetsky, B. I., & Gur, R. C. (2010). “It's not what you say, but how you say it”: A reciprocal temporo-frontal network for affective prosody. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 4, Art. 19. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2010.00019

Selected Recent Conference Presentations

Laukka, P., Elfenbein, H. A., Thingujam, N. S., Iraki, F. K., Rockstuhl, T., Althoff, J., & Chui, W. (2011, July 26-29). Vocal affect expression across cultures. Paper presented at the 2011 Meeting of the International Society for Research on Emotion, Kyoto, Japan.

Laukka, P., Eerola, T., Thingujam, N. S., Yamasaki, T., & Beller, G. (2010, August 23-27). Universal and culture-specific factors in the recognition and performance of musical emotions. Paper presented at the 11th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Seattle, USA.

Laukka, P., & Juslin, P. N. (2009, August 12-16). Which emotions does music express and evoke? A synthesis of findings from recent questionnaire studies. Paper presented at the 7th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, Jyväskylä, Finland.

Funding

Vetenskapsrådet (Swedish Research Council)
STINT
Forskningsprogrammet Kultur i vården och vården som kultur vid Stockholms läns landsting
Sasakawa Young Leaders' Fellowship Fund