fMRI evidence for the effect of verbal complexity on lateralisation of the neural response associated with decoding prosodic emotion

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2880-2887

  Mitchell, Rachel L C ^a,b   Ross, Elliott D ^c  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; fMRI; Lateralisation; Linguistic load; Prosody

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PHONETICS; PROSODY; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPEECH; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBALIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPREHENSION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 48049084353     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.05.024     Document Type: Article

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