An ERP investigation on the temporal dynamics of emotional prosody and emotional semantics in pseudo- and lexical-sentence context

Brain and Language

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 59-69

  Paulmann, Silke ^a   Kotz, Sonja A ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emotional prosody; Emotional semantics; ERPs; Integration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; RATING SCALE; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 40849097781     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2007.11.005     Document Type: Article

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