Unattended emotional intonations modulate linguistic prosody processing

Brain and Language

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 141-147

  Pihan, Hans ^a,b   Tabert, Matthias ^d   Assuras, Stephanie ^c   Borod, Joan ^a,c  

^a MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic; DC potentials; Emotion; Hemispheric specialization; Linguistic functions; Prosody

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPEECH;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 42249111049     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2007.08.001     Document Type: Article

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