Sex-dependent modulation of activity in the neural networks engaged during emotional speech comprehension

Brain Research

Volumn 1390, Issue , 2011, Pages 108-117

  Beaucousin, Virginie ^a,b   Zago, Laure ^a   Hervé, Pierre Yves ^a   Strelnikov, Kuzma ^a,c   Crivello, Fabrice ^a   Mazoyer, Bernard ^a,d,e   Tzourio Mazoyer, Nathalie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 8   (France)

^c Brain and Cognition Research Center in Toulouse   (France)

^d CAEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^e INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

Emotion; Emotional prosody; fMRI; Sex differences; Speech

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GRAMMAR; GUSTATORY CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; THALAMUS; WORD RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; COMPREHENSION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955595104     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2011.03.043     Document Type: Article

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