Emotional speech synchronizes brains across listeners and engages large-scale dynamic brain networks

NeuroImage

Volumn 102, Issue P2, 2014, Pages 498-509

  Nummenmaa, Lauri ^a,b   Saarimäki, Heini ^a   Glerean, Enrico ^a   Gotsopoulos, Athanasios ^a   Jääskeläinen, Iiro P ^a   Hari, Riitta ^a   Sams, Mikko ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b TURKU PET CENTRE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Emotion; Network; Speech comprehension; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANTERIOR INSULA; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BOLD SIGNAL; CEREBELLUM; COMPREHENSION; CONNECTOME; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERSUBJECT PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION; LATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; THALAMUS; AFFECT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; EMOTIONALITY; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADULT; AFFECT; AROUSAL; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84906731080     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.07.063     Document Type: Article

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