Research Article

Tactile Modulation of Emotional Speech Samples

Table 6

Pairwise comparisons between the speech samples within the four concurrent tactile stimulation categories.

Concurrent tactile stimulationEmotional content of the speech sample
positive versus neutralpositive versus negativeneutral versus negative

T = 3.43***T = 3.46***
Speech-onlypositivepositivens
d = 1.71d = 2.02

T = 3.11**T = 3.28***
Derived from positive speech samplepositivepositivens
d = 1.38d = 1.56

T = 2.26*T = 3.04*T = 2.21*
Static vibrationpositivepositiveneutral
d = 0.93d = 1.44d = 0.56

T = 3.23***T = 2.77**
Derived from negative speech samplepositivepositivens
d = 1.64d = 1.28

P < 0.05, P < 0.01, P < 0.001, and ns: non-significant.