When emotional prosody and semantics dance cheek to cheek: ERP evidence

Brain Research

Volumn 1151, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 107-118

  Kotz, Sonja A ^a   Paulmann, Silke ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emotional prosody; Emotional semantics; Event related potentials; Hemispheric specialization; N400; Prosodic positivities

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL PROSODY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TOPOGRAPHY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS;

EID: 34248209088     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.03.015     Document Type: Article

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