title: Valence-specific conflict moderation in the dorso-medial PFC and the caudate head in emotional speech.
abstract: Emotional speech comprises of complex multimodal verbal and non-verbal information that allows deducting others' emotional states or thoughts in social interactions. While the neural correlates of verbal and non-verbal aspects and their interaction in emotional speech have been identified, there is very little evidence on how we perceive and resolve incongruity in emotional speech, and whether such incongruity extends to current concepts of task-specific prediction errors as a consequence of unexpected action outcomes ('negative surprise'). Here, we explored this possibility while participants listened to congruent and incongruent angry, happy or neutral utterances and categorized the expressed emotions by their verbal (semantic) content. Results reveal valence-specific incongruity effects: negative verbal content expressed in a happy tone of voice increased activation in the dorso-medial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC) extending its role from conflict moderation to appraisal of valence-specific conflict in emotional speech. Conversely, the caudate head bilaterally responded selectively to positive verbal content expressed in an angry tone of voice broadening previous accounts of the caudate head in linguistic control to moderating valence-specific control in emotional speech. Together, these results suggest that control structures of the human brain (dmPFC and subcompartments of the basal ganglia) impact emotional speech differentially when conflict arises.
authors: Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Stephanstrasse 1a, 04103 Leipzig, Germany, School of Psychological Sciences, Zochonis Building, The University of Manchester, Brunswick Street, Manchester M13 9PL, UK, Department of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany, Department of Psychiatry, Social psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Hannover Medical School Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany, and NICA - NeuroImaging and Clinical Applications, Hannover Medical School Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Stephanstrasse 1a, 04103 Leipzig, Germany, School of Psychological Sciences, Zochonis Building, The University of Manchester, Brunswick Street, Manchester M13 9PL, UK, Department of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany, Department of Psychiatry, Social psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Hannover Medical School Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany, and NICA - NeuroImaging and Clinical Applications, Hannover Medical School Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany kotz@cbs.mpg.de.
authors: Sonja A
authors: SA
authors: Kotz
authors: Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Stephanstrasse 1a, 04103 Leipzig, Germany, School of Psychological Sciences, Zochonis Building, The University of Manchester, Brunswick Street, Manchester M13 9PL, UK, Department of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany, Department of Psychiatry, Social psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Hannover Medical School Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany, and NICA - NeuroImaging and Clinical Applications, Hannover Medical School Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany.
authors: Reinhard
authors: R
authors: Dengler
authors: Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Stephanstrasse 1a, 04103 Leipzig, Germany, School of Psychological Sciences, Zochonis Building, The University of Manchester, Brunswick Street, Manchester M13 9PL, UK, Department of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany, Department of Psychiatry, Social psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Hannover Medical School Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany, and NICA - NeuroImaging and Clinical Applications, Hannover Medical School Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Stephanstrasse 1a, 04103 Leipzig, Germany, School of Psychological Sciences, Zochonis Building, The University of Manchester, Brunswick Street, Manchester M13 9PL, UK, Department of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany, Department of Psychiatry, Social psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Hannover Medical School Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany, and NICA - NeuroImaging and Clinical Applications, Hannover Medical School Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany.
authors: Matthias
authors: M
authors: Wittfoth
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000786:Anger / Q000502:physiology; D002421:Caudate Nucleus / Q000502:physiology*; D003142:Communication; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D019260:Expressed Emotion / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006240:Happiness; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D009633:Nonverbal Communication; D017397:Prefrontal Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology; D013060:Speech / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: caudate head; conflict; dmPFC; emotional speech; fMRI; prediction error