Processing of emotional vocalizations in bilateral inferior frontal cortex

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2847-2855

  Frühholz, Sascha ^a   Grandjean, Didier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Emotional vocalizations; FMRI; Inferior frontal cortex; Prosody; Voice

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; EMOTIONALITY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFERIOR FRONTAL CORTEX; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION;

EMOTIONAL VOCALIZATIONS; FMRI; INFERIOR FRONTAL CORTEX; PROSODY; VOICE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; EMOTIONS; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN; VOICE;

EID: 84889688262     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: 18737528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2013.10.007     Document Type: Review

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