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On the lateralization of emotional prosody: an event-related functional MR investigation

Kotz, Sonja A; Meyer, Martin; Alter, Kai; Besson, Mireille; von Cramon, D Yves; Friederici, Angela D (2003). On the lateralization of emotional prosody: an event-related functional MR investigation. Brain and Language, 86(3):366-376.

Abstract

In order to investigate the lateralization of emotional speech we recorded the brain responses to three emotional intonations in two conditions, i.e., "normal" speech and "prosodic" speech (i.e., speech with no linguistic meaning, but retaining the 'slow prosodic modulations' of speech). Participants listened to semantically neutral sentences spoken with a positive, neutral, or negative intonation in both conditions and judged how positive, negative, or neutral the intonation was on a five-point scale. Core peri-sylvian language areas, as well as some frontal and subcortical areas were activated bilaterally in the normal speech condition. In contrast, a bilateral fronto-opercular region was active when participants listened to prosodic speech. Positive and negative intonations elicited a bilateral fronto-temporal and subcortical pattern in the normal speech condition, and more frontal activation in the prosodic speech condition. The current results call into question an exclusive right hemisphere lateralization of emotional prosody and expand patient data on the functional role of the basal ganglia during the perception of emotional prosody.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:06 Faculty of Arts > Institute of Psychology
Dewey Decimal Classification:150 Psychology
Scopus Subject Areas:Social Sciences & Humanities > Language and Linguistics
Social Sciences & Humanities > Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Social Sciences & Humanities > Linguistics and Language
Life Sciences > Cognitive Neuroscience
Health Sciences > Speech and Hearing
Language:English
Date:2003
Deposited On:29 Apr 2013 14:12
Last Modified:09 Jan 2025 02:40
Publisher:Elsevier
ISSN:0093-934X
OA Status:Closed
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0093-934X(02)00532-1
PubMed ID:12972367
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