title: Neural systems for recognition of emotional prosody: a 3-D lesion study.
abstract: Which brain regions are associated with recognition of emotional prosody? Are these distinct from those for recognition of facial expression? These issues were investigated by mapping the overlaps of co-registered lesions from 66 brain-damaged participants as a function of their performance in rating basic emotions. It was found that recognizing emotions from prosody draws on the right frontoparietal operculum, the bilateral frontal pole, and the left frontal operculum. Recognizing emotions from prosody and facial expressions draws on the right frontoparietal cortex, which may be important in reconstructing aspects of the emotion signaled by the stimulus. Furthermore, there were regions in the left and right temporal lobes that contributed disproportionately to recognition of emotion from faces or prosody, respectively.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City 52242, USA. ralph-adolphs@uiowa.edu
authors.forename: Ralph
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Adolphs
authors.forename: Hanna
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Damasio
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Tranel
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001143:Arousal / Q000502:physiology; D001925:Brain Damage, Chronic / Q000503:physiopathology*; D001931:Brain Mapping; D004193:Discrimination Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology; D004644:Emotions / Q000145:classification / Q000502:physiology*; D005149:Facial Expression; D005260:Female; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D009778:Occipital Lobe / Q000503:physiopathology*; D010296:Parietal Lobe / Q000503:physiopathology*; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed