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Emotion and attention interactions in social cognition: brain regions involved in processing anger prosody

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Sander, David, Grandjean, Didier, Pourtois, Gilles, Schwartz, Sophie, Seghier, Mohamed L., Scherer, Klaus R., Vuilleumier, Patrik·2005·NeuroImage

Abstract

Multiple levels of processing are thought to be involved in the appraisal of emotionally relevant events, with some processes being engaged relatively independently of attention, whereas other processes may depend on attention and current task goals or context. We conducted an event-related fMRI experiment to examine how processing angry voice prosody, an affectively and socially salient signal, is modulated by voluntary attention. To manipulate attention orthogonally to emotional prosody, we used a dichotic listening paradigm in which meaningless utterances, pronounced with either angry or neutral prosody, were presented simultaneously to both ears on each trial. In two successive blocks, participants selectively attended to either the left or right ear and performed a gender-decision on the voice heard on the target side. Our results revealed a functional dissociation between different brain areas. Whereas the right amygdala and bilateral superior temporal sulcus responded to anger prosody irrespective of whether it was heard from a to-be-attended or to-be-ignored voice, the orbitofrontal cortex and the cuneus in medial occipital cortex showed greater activation to the same emotional stimuli when the angry voice was to-be-attended rather than to-be-ignored. Furthermore, regression analyses revealed a strong correlation between orbitofrontal regions and sensitivity on a behavioral inhibition scale measuring proneness to anxiety reactions. Our results underscore the importanc…

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Authors
Sander, D., Grandjean, D., Pourtois, G., Schwartz, S., Seghier, M. L., Scherer, K. R., & Vuilleumier, P.
Affiliations
University of Geneva (CH)
Corresponding author
Sander, David
Venue
NeuroImage
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2005-12
Volume
28
Issue
4
Pages
848-858
ISSN
1053-8119 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2131214576
Cited by
392
References
101
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FWCI
7.91
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • NeuroImage (publishedVersion)
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  • Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) (submittedVersion)
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Funders
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
Keywords
voice emotion perception, dichotic listening, voluntary attention, amygdala, superior temporal sulcus, orbitofrontal cortex, cuneus, anxiety proneness, social cognition, emotional appraisal, individual differences
MeSH terms
Acoustic Stimulation, Adult, Amygdala, Anger, Anxiety, Attention, Auditory Cortex, Brain, Cerebral Cortex, Dichotic Listening Tests, Emotions, Female, Gender Identity, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Motivation, Nerve Net, Photic Stimulation, Surveys and Questionnaires, Social Perception, Prefrontal Cortex

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