Lateralization of Affective Prosody in Brain and the Callosal Integration of Hemispheric Language Functions

Ross, Elliott D.; Thompson, Robin D.; Yenkosky, Joseph

doi:10.1006/brln.1997.1731

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“…This null result is further supported by some recent lesion data that correlated aprosodic syndromes with bilateral lesion sites (Cancelliere & Kertesz, 1990;Ross et al, 1997). Thus, the question remains to explain the discrepancies presented in the experimental literature on emotional prosody.…”

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“…There has also been disagreement whether emotional valence induces lateralization of emotional prosody. The lateralization hypothesis implies a right hemisphere superiority of emotional speech independent of valence (e.g., Ross, 1981;Ross, Thompson, & Yenkosky, 1997). By contrast, the valence hypothesis proposes a left hemisphere dominance for positive states and a right hemisphere dominance for negative states (e.g., Davidson, Abercrombie, Nitschke, & Putnam, 1999).…”

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“…As this brief review of the literature shows, neither patient studies nor brain imaging studies have yet provided a clear picture of the lateralization of linguistic and emotional prosody (see also Baum & Pell, 1999;Pell, 1998;Ross et al, 1997). In particular, two issues have been critically discussed.…”

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“…First, Pell (1998) has argued that in most patient studies, the interactive influence of linguistic and emotional factors on speech prosody has not been controlled for. Second, Ross et al (1997) have pointed out that patients with different sizes and areas of lesions have been included in the studies on aprosodia, thus leading to heterogeneous results and complicating any meaningful conclusion on the lateralization of emotional prosody.…”

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

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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 Ôslow prosodic modulationsÕ 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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“…Although there is strong evidence that processing affective intonation is lateralized to the right hemisphere [Blonder et al, 1991;Bowers et al, 1987;Darby, 1993;Denes et al, 1984;Ross et al, 1997;Starkstein et al, 1994] the functional lateralization of linguistically relevant intonation remains a subject of debate [Baum and Pell, 1999;Pell, 1998;Pell and Baum, 1997]. One hypothesis proposes that right cortical areas subserve the linguistic aspects of prosody [Brådvik et al, 1991;Bryan, 1989;Pell and Baum, 1997;Weintraub and Mesulam, 1981].…”

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FMRI reveals brain regions mediating slow prosodic modulations in spoken sentences

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By means of fMRI measurements, the present study identifies brain regions in left and right peri-sylvian areas that subserve grammatical or prosodic processing. Normal volunteers heard 1) normal sentences; 2) so-called syntactic sentences comprising syntactic, but no lexical-semantic information; and 3) manipulated speech signals comprising only prosodic information, i.e., speech melody. For all conditions, significant blood oxygenation signals were recorded from the supratemporal plane bilaterally. Left hemisphere areas that surround Heschl gyrus responded more strongly during the two sentence conditions than to speech melody. This finding suggests that the anterior and posterior portions of the superior temporal region (STR) support lexical-semantic and syntactic aspects of sentence processing. In contrast, the right superior temporal region, in especially the planum temporale, responded more strongly to speech melody. Significant brain activation in the fronto-opercular cortices was observed when participants heard pseudo sentences and was strongest during the speech melody condition. In contrast, the fronto-opercular area is not prominently involved in listening to normal sentences. Thus, the functional activation in fronto-opercular regions increases as the grammatical information available in the sentence decreases. Generally, brain responses to speech melody were stronger in right than left hemisphere sites, suggesting a particular role of right cortical areas in the processing of slow prosodic modulations. Hum. Brain Mapping 17:73-88, 2002.

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Lateralization of Affective Prosody in Brain and the Callosal Integration of Hemispheric Language Functions

Cited by 267 publications

References 92 publications

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

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

FMRI reveals brain regions mediating slow prosodic modulations in spoken sentences

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