Effects of prosodic emotional intensity on activation of associative auditory cortex

Ethofer, Thomas; Anders, Silke; Wiethoff, Sarah; Erb, Michael; Herbert, Cornelia; Saur, Ralf; Grodd, Wolfgang; Wildgruber, Dirk

doi:10.1097/01.wnr.0000199466.32036.5d

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“…These ratings were submitted to a two-way multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) with the five rating questions as dependent variables (valence, emotional intensity, arousal, source identification, perceived loudness). Sound category (HV and NV) and the above PCA-defined sub-classes were used as between-subject factors 3 .…”

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“…2c and d). A sound battery was comprised of the 11 extreme-most HV+, HV-, NV+ and NV-as well as 11 neutral sounds from 3 Note that in this MANOVA, each sound is effectively treated as a unique ''subject'' or observation. Given that each sound was classified to one and only one PCA-defined sub-class, this was a betweensubject factor (i.e.…”

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“…There is mounting neuroimaging evidence that regions of the anterior temporal lobe, in particular the right anterior superior temporal sulcus, are specialized for the processing of human paralinguistic vocalizations (reviewed in Belin et al [32], see also Grandjean et al [2], Meyer et al [23] Ethofer et al [3,33] Schirmer et al [34] for evidence concerning the impact of vocal prosody). Our results extend these findings to show that the emotional content of human non-linguistic vocalizations also plays a central role in distinguishing such stimuli from other categories of environmental sounds.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As such, these stimuli are distinct from prior studies that presented words or wordlike utterances spoken with different intonations (e.g. [2,3,23]). Our psychophysical data support the proposition that human vocalizations are a distinct category of emotional auditory stimuli; they were reliably rated as more intense across all three emotional valences (positive, neutral, and negative).…”

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“…While the visual modality has been studied in extensive detail, comparatively less is known concerning the auditory modality. To date, auditory research has largely focused on the emotional attributes of speech prosody and music [1][2][3][4][5][6], with only a few studies using either environmental sounds or non-linguistic vocalizations [7][8][9][10][11][12].…”

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Emotional Pre-eminence of Human Vocalizations

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Human vocalizations (HV), as well as environmental sounds, convey a wide range of information, including emotional expressions. The latter have been relatively rarely investigated, and, in particular, it is unclear if duration-controlled non-linguistic HV sequences can reliably convey both positive and negative emotional information. The aims of the present psychophysical study were: (i) to generate a battery of duration-controlled and acoustically controlled extreme valence stimuli, and (ii) to compare the emotional impact of HV with that of other environmental sounds. A set of 144 HV and other environmental sounds was selected to cover emotionally positive, negative, and neutral values. Sequences of 2 s duration were rated on Likert scales by 16 listeners along three emotional dimensions (arousal, intensity, and valence) and two non-emotional dimensions (confidence in identifying the sound source and perceived loudness). The 2 s stimuli were reliably perceived as emotionally positive, negative or neutral. We observed a linear relationship between intensity and arousal ratings and a ''boomerangshaped'' intensity-valence distribution, as previously reported for longer, duration-variable stimuli. In addition, the emotional intensity ratings for HV were higher than for other environmental sounds, suggesting that HV constitute a characteristic class of emotional auditory stimuli. In addition, emotionally positive HV were more readily identified than other sounds, and emotionally negative stimuli, irrespective of their source, were perceived as louder than their positive and neutral counterparts. In conclusion, HV are a distinct emotional category of environmental sounds and they retain this emotional preeminence even when presented for brief periods.

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Association of trait emotional intelligence and individual fMRI‐activation patterns during the perception of social signals from voice and face

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Ethofer²,

Huberle³

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Multimodal integration of nonverbal social signals is essential for successful social interaction. Previous studies have implicated the posterior superior temporal sulcus (pSTS) in the perception of social signals such as nonverbal emotional signals as well as in social cognitive functions like mentalizing/theory of mind. In the present study, we evaluated the relationships between trait emotional intelligence (EI) and fMRI activation patterns in individual subjects during the multimodal perception of nonverbal emotional signals from voice and face. Trait EI was linked to hemodynamic responses in the right pSTS, an area which also exhibits a distinct sensitivity to human voices and faces. Within all other regions known to subserve the perceptual audiovisual integration of human social signals (i.e., amygdala, fusiform gyrus, thalamus), no such linked responses were observed. This functional difference in the network for the audiovisual perception of human social signals indicates a specific contribution of the pSTS as a possible interface between the perception of social information and social cognition.

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Representation of perceived sound valence in the human brain

Viinikainen

Kätsyri

Sams

2011

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Perceived emotional valence of sensory stimuli influences their processing in various cortical and subcortical structures. Recent evidence suggests that negative and positive valences are processed separately, not along a single linear continuum. Here, we examined how brain is activated when subjects are listening to auditory stimuli varying parametrically in perceived valence (very unpleasant-neutral-very pleasant). Seventeen healthy volunteers were scanned in 3 Tesla while listening to International Affective Digital Sounds (IADS-2) in a block design paradigm. We found a strong quadratic U-shaped relationship between valence and blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) signal strength in the medial prefrontal cortex, auditory cortex, and amygdala. Signals were the weakest for neutral stimuli and increased progressively for more unpleasant or pleasant stimuli. The results strengthen the view that valence is a crucial factor in neural processing of emotions. An alternative explanation is salience, which increases with both negative and positive valences.

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Effects of prosodic emotional intensity on activation of associative auditory cortex

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Emotional Pre-eminence of Human Vocalizations

Emotional Pre-eminence of Human Vocalizations

Association of trait emotional intelligence and individual fMRI‐activation patterns during the perception of social signals from voice and face

Representation of perceived sound valence in the human brain

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