The nature of hemispheric specialization for linguistic and emotional prosodic perception: A meta-analysis of the lesion literature

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 3722-3738

  Witteman, Jurriaan ^a   Van Ijzendoorn, Marinus H ^a,b   Van de Velde, Daan ^a   Van Heuven, Vincent J J P ^a   Schiller, Niels O ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brain damage; Emotional prosody; Lateralization; Linguistic prosody; Meta analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFECT SIZE; EMOTION; HAPPINESS; HEMISPHERE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LINGUISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; META ANALYSIS; PUBLISHING; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

BRAIN INJURIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; PERCEPTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 80855132539     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.09.028     Document Type: Article

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