Cerebral mechanisms for understanding emotional prosody in speech  

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Pell, Marc D.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Brain and Language (Full Text) vol. 96 no. 2 (2006), page 221-234.
Topik: Emotion; Prosody; Speech; Laterality; Brain-damaged; Patient study; Sentence processing; Social cognitive neuroscience
Fulltext: 96_02_Pell.pdf (451.35KB)

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Hemispheric contributions to the processing of emotional speech prosody were investigated by comparing adults with a focal lesion involving the right (nD9) or left (nD11) hemisphere and adults without brain damage (nD12). Participants listened to semantically anomalous utterances in three conditions (discrimination, identiWcation, and rating) which assessed their recognition of Wve prosodic emotions under the inXuence of diVerent task- and response-selection demands. Findings revealed that right- and left-hemispheric lesions were associated with impaired comprehension of prosody, although possibly for distinct reasons: right-hemisphere compromise produced a more pervasive insensitivity to emotive features of prosodic stimuli, whereas left-hemisphere damage yielded greater diYculties interpreting prosodic representations as a code embedded with language content.

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