The voices of wrath: brain responses to angry prosody in meaningless speech.
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.
Grandjean
Didier
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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>
Sander
David
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Pourtois
Gilles
G
Schwartz
Sophie
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Seghier
Mohamed L
ML
Scherer
Klaus R
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Vuilleumier
Patrik
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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*
D010100:Oxygen