Understanding Emotional Prosody Activates Right Hemisphere Regions

Abstract

Neurologically healthy subjects activate right hemisphere regions during emotional prosody recognition.

Saying it with feeling: neural responses to emotional vocalizations

“…Whereas previous lesion [13,16,36] and neuroima- ging [12] data have tended to show right hemisphere dominance for emotional prosody, some of our results show left lateralization of responses. Lesion evidence of left hemisphere involvement in emotional prosody [6,7,15,17] has been interpreted in terms of inter-hemispheric interactions required to integrate the rightsided prosodic and left-sided propositional content of speech.…”

Saying it with feeling: neural responses to emotional vocalizations

“…Whereas previous lesion [13,16,36] and neuroima- ging [12] data have tended to show right hemisphere dominance for emotional prosody, some of our results show left lateralization of responses. Lesion evidence of left hemisphere involvement in emotional prosody [6,7,15,17] has been interpreted in terms of inter-hemispheric interactions required to integrate the rightsided prosodic and left-sided propositional content of speech.…”

Modality specific neural correlates of auditory and somatic hallucinations

“…The prominent involvement of the right temporal cortex may seem surprising given that the patients were perceiving speech, but is consistent with data from previous neuroimaging1 3 4 and EEG studies16 of auditory hallucinations, and with the greater right frontotemporal activation when subjects imagine another person's speech, as opposed to their own 17. Moreover, as auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia are typically derogatory and hostile in tone, the prominent engagement of right hemispheric areas might reflect processing of the prosody18 as well as an emotional response to its content 19…”

Feasibility of using fMRI to study mothers responding to infant cries

“…The right medial prefrontal cortex activation is consistent with studies suggesting that the right hemisphere may be preferentially involved in receptive prosody which is the ability to understand the emotional information present in another's speech [George et al, 1996;Ross, 1981]. Additionally, there is a robust literature linking negative affect (as may be induced by the infant cries) and the right frontal cortex [Davidson and Sutton, 1995].…”

Saying it with feeling: neural responses to emotional vocalizations

“…Whereas previous lesion [13,16,36] and neuroima- ging [12] data have tended to show right hemisphere dominance for emotional prosody, some of our results show left lateralization of responses. Lesion evidence of left hemisphere involvement in emotional prosody [6,7,15,17] has been interpreted in terms of inter-hemispheric interactions required to integrate the rightsided prosodic and left-sided propositional content of speech.…”

Modality specific neural correlates of auditory and somatic hallucinations

“…The prominent involvement of the right temporal cortex may seem surprising given that the patients were perceiving speech, but is consistent with data from previous neuroimaging1 3 4 and EEG studies16 of auditory hallucinations, and with the greater right frontotemporal activation when subjects imagine another person's speech, as opposed to their own 17. Moreover, as auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia are typically derogatory and hostile in tone, the prominent engagement of right hemispheric areas might reflect processing of the prosody18 as well as an emotional response to its content 19…”

Feasibility of using fMRI to study mothers responding to infant cries

“…The right medial prefrontal cortex activation is consistent with studies suggesting that the right hemisphere may be preferentially involved in receptive prosody which is the ability to understand the emotional information present in another's speech [George et al, 1996;Ross, 1981]. Additionally, there is a robust literature linking negative affect (as may be induced by the infant cries) and the right frontal cortex [Davidson and Sutton, 1995].…”

Saying it with feeling: neural responses to emotional vocalizations

“…Whereas previous lesion [13,16,36] and neuroima- ging [12] data have tended to show right hemisphere dominance for emotional prosody, some of our results show left lateralization of responses. Lesion evidence of left hemisphere involvement in emotional prosody [6,7,15,17] has been interpreted in terms of inter-hemispheric interactions required to integrate the rightsided prosodic and left-sided propositional content of speech.…”

Modality specific neural correlates of auditory and somatic hallucinations

“…The prominent involvement of the right temporal cortex may seem surprising given that the patients were perceiving speech, but is consistent with data from previous neuroimaging1 3 4 and EEG studies16 of auditory hallucinations, and with the greater right frontotemporal activation when subjects imagine another person's speech, as opposed to their own 17. Moreover, as auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia are typically derogatory and hostile in tone, the prominent engagement of right hemispheric areas might reflect processing of the prosody18 as well as an emotional response to its content 19…”

Feasibility of using fMRI to study mothers responding to infant cries

“…The right medial prefrontal cortex activation is consistent with studies suggesting that the right hemisphere may be preferentially involved in receptive prosody which is the ability to understand the emotional information present in another's speech [George et al, 1996;Ross, 1981]. Additionally, there is a robust literature linking negative affect (as may be induced by the infant cries) and the right frontal cortex [Davidson and Sutton, 1995].…”