title: 'Inner voices': the cerebral representation of emotional voice cues described in literary texts.
abstract: While non-verbal affective voice cues are generally recognized as a crucial behavioral guide in any day-to-day conversation their role as a powerful source of information may extend well beyond close-up personal interactions and include other modes of communication such as written discourse or literature as well. Building on the assumption that similarities between the different 'modes' of voice cues may not only be limited to their functional role but may also include cerebral mechanisms engaged in the decoding process, the present functional magnetic resonance imaging study aimed at exploring brain responses associated with processing emotional voice signals described in literary texts. Emphasis was placed on evaluating 'voice' sensitive as well as task- and emotion-related modulations of brain activation frequently associated with the decoding of acoustic vocal cues. Obtained findings suggest that several similarities emerge with respect to the perception of acoustic voice signals: results identify the superior temporal, lateral and medial frontal cortex as well as the posterior cingulate cortex and cerebellum to contribute to the decoding process, with similarities to acoustic voice perception reflected in a 'voice'-cue preference of temporal voice areas as well as an emotion-related modulation of the medial frontal cortex and a task-modulated response of the lateral frontal cortex.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen 72076, Germany, Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN), Tübingen 72076, Germany and Department of Comparative Literature, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen 72074, Germany Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen 72076, Germany, Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN), Tübingen 72076, Germany and Department of Comparative Literature, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen 72074, Germany Carolin.Brueck@med.uni-tuebingen.de.
authors.forename: Carolin
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Brück
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen 72076, Germany, Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN), Tübingen 72076, Germany and Department of Comparative Literature, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen 72074, Germany.
authors.forename: Benjamin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kreifelts
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen 72076, Germany, Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN), Tübingen 72076, Germany and Department of Comparative Literature, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen 72074, Germany Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen 72076, Germany, Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN), Tübingen 72076, Germany and Department of Comparative Literature, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen 72074, Germany.
authors.forename: Christina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gößling-Arnold
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen 72076, Germany, Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN), Tübingen 72076, Germany and Department of Comparative Literature, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen 72074, Germany Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen 72076, Germany, Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN), Tübingen 72076, Germany and Department of Comparative Literature, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen 72074, Germany.
authors.forename: Jürgen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wertheimer
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen 72076, Germany, Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN), Tübingen 72076, Germany and Department of Comparative Literature, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen 72074, Germany Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen 72076, Germany, Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN), Tübingen 72076, Germany and Department of Comparative Literature, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen 72074, Germany.
authors.forename: Dirk
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wildgruber
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000328:Adult; D001307:Auditory Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D001931:Brain Mapping; D002540:Cerebral Cortex; D003463:Cues; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D007600:Judgment / Q000502:physiology; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D010100:Oxygen / Q000097:blood; D060145:Text Messaging; D013850:Thinking / Q000502:physiology*; D014831:Voice; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D010100:Oxygen
keywords: emotion; fMRI; literature; non-verbal communication; voice