title: The voices of wrath: brain responses to angry prosody in meaningless speech.
abstract: We report two functional magnetic resonance imaging experiments showing enhanced responses in human middle superior temporal sulcus for angry relative to neutral prosody. This emotional enhancement was voice specific, unrelated to isolated acoustic amplitude or frequency cues in angry prosody, and distinct from any concomitant task-related attentional modulation. Attention and emotion seem to have separate effects on stimulus processing, reflecting a fundamental principle of human brain organization shared by voice and face perception.
authors.affiliation: Geneva Emotion Research Group, Department of Psychology, University of Geneva, bd. du Pont d'Arve 40, CH-1205 Geneva, Switzerland. Didier.Grandjean@pse.unige.ch <Didier.Grandjean@pse.unige.ch>
authors.forename: Didier
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Grandjean
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sander
authors.forename: Gilles
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pourtois
authors.forename: Sophie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schwartz
authors.forename: Mohamed L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Seghier
authors.forename: Klaus R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Scherer
authors.forename: Patrik
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Vuilleumier
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation / Q000379:methods; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D000786:Anger / Q000502:physiology*; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D001931:Brain Mapping; D005149:Facial Expression; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D008037:Linguistics; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D010100:Oxygen / Q000097:blood; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000098:blood supply / Q000502:physiology*; D014831:Voice / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D010100:Oxygen