title: Does it talk the talk? On the role of basal ganglia in emotive speech processing.
abstract: Ackermann et al.'s phylogenetic account of speech argues that the basal ganglia imbue speech with emotive content. However, a body of work on auditory/emotive processing is inconsistent with attributing this function exclusively to these structures. The account further overlooks the possibility that the emotion-integration function may be at least in part mediated by the cortico-ponto-cerebellar system.
authors.affiliation: Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC) and Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science,University of Trento,Mattarello (TN),Italy.uri.hasson@unitn.itgabriele.miceli@unitn.ithttp://www.hasson.orghttp://www.unitn.it/en/cimec/11706/gabriele-miceli.
authors.forename: Uri
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Hasson
authors.affiliation: School of Molecular and Cellular Biology,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,Urbana,IL 61801.d-llano@illinois.eduhttp://mcb.illinois.edu/faculty/profile/d-llano/
authors.forename: Daniel A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Llano
authors.affiliation: Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC) and Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science,University of Trento,Mattarello (TN),Italy.uri.hasson@unitn.itgabriele.miceli@unitn.ithttp://www.hasson.orghttp://www.unitn.it/en/cimec/11706/gabriele-miceli.
authors.forename: Gabriele
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Miceli
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology,Florida International University,Miami,FL 33199.adick@fiu.eduhttp://faculty.fiu.edu/~adick.
authors.forename: Anthony Steven
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Dick
mesh_terms: D000819:Animal Communication; D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D003142:Communication; D006801:Humans; D011323:Primates / Q000502:physiology*; D013060:Speech / Q000502:physiology*