Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0987182

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0987182

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Vocal Emotional Communication. 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.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2009

End Date: 30-06-2013

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $295,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Music | Cognitive Science Not Elsewhere Classified | Performing Arts and Creative Writing |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

The performing arts (incl. music, theatre and dance) |

Other Keywords

Cognitive Science Not Elsewhere Classified | Communication Across Languages and Cultures | Music | Performing Arts and Creative Writing | The performing arts (incl. music, theatre and dance)

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