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

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Kotz, Sonja A, Meyer, Martin, Alter, Kai, Besson, Mireille, von Cramon, D.Yves, Friederici, Angela D·2003·Brain and Language

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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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Kotz, S. A., Meyer, M., Alter, K., Besson, M., von Cramon, D. Y., & Friederici, A. D.
Affiliations
  • Max Planck Society (DE)
  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
Corresponding author
Kotz, Sonja A
Venue
Brain and Language
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2003-09
Volume
86
Issue
3
Pages
366-376
ISSN
0093-934X (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2146091432
Cited by
300
References
68
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FWCI
8.33
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Brain and Language (publishedVersion)
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  • MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (submittedVersion)
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  • Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Music Perception
Keywords
emotional prosody, intonation, hemispheric lateralization, right hemisphere, emotional speech perception, basal ganglia, event-related fMRI
MeSH terms
Adult, Affect, Brain, Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Female, Humans, Functional Laterality, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Sound Spectrography, Speech Perception, Time Factors

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