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Publication Date: 2006-Feb
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Cerebral Mechanisms for Understanding Emotional Prosody in Speech
Pell, Marc D.
Brain and Language, v96 n2 p221-234 Feb 2006
Hemispheric contributions to the processing of emotional speech prosody were investigated by comparing adults with a focal lesion involving the right (n=9) or left (n=11) hemisphere and adults without brain damage (n=12). Participants listened to semantically anomalous utterances in three conditions ("discrimination," "identification," and "rating") which assessed their recognition of five prosodic emotions under the influence of different task- and response-selection demands. Findings revealed that right- and left-hemispheric lesions were associated with impaired comprehension of prosody, although possibly for distinct reasons: right-hemisphere compromise produced a more pervasive insensitivity to emotive features of prosodic stimuli, whereas left-hemisphere damage yielded greater difficulties interpreting prosodic representations as a code embedded with language content.
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Suprasegmentals, Psychological Patterns, Neurological Impairments, Comprehension, Language Processing, Adults
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Language: English
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