title: Sadness is unique: neural processing of emotions in speech prosody in musicians and non-musicians.
abstract: Musical training has been shown to have positive effects on several aspects of speech processing, however, the effects of musical training on the neural processing of speech prosody conveying distinct emotions are yet to be better understood. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate whether the neural responses to speech prosody conveying happiness, sadness, and fear differ between musicians and non-musicians. Differences in processing of emotional speech prosody between the two groups were only observed when sadness was expressed. Musicians showed increased activation in the middle frontal gyrus, the anterior medial prefrontal cortex, the posterior cingulate cortex and the retrosplenial cortex. Our results suggest an increased sensitivity of emotional processing in musicians with respect to sadness expressed in speech, possibly reflecting empathic processes.
authors: Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany ; Human Science Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany ; Parmenides Center for Art and Science Pullach, Germany.
authors: Mona
authors: M
authors: Park
authors: Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany ; Human Science Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany ; Parmenides Center for Art and Science Pullach, Germany.
authors: Evgeny
authors: E
authors: Gutyrchik
authors: Human Science Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany ; Institute of Musicology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany.
authors: Lorenz
authors: L
authors: Welker
authors: Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany ; Human Science Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany.
authors: Petra
authors: P
authors: Carl
authors: Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany ; Human Science Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany ; Parmenides Center for Art and Science Pullach, Germany ; Department of Psychology and Key Laboratory of Machine Perception (MoE), Peking University Beijing, China ; Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China.
authors: Ernst
authors: E
authors: Pöppel
authors: Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany ; Human Science Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany ; Parmenides Center for Art and Science Pullach, Germany ; Moscow Research Institute of Psychiatry Moscow, Russia ; Prague Psychiatric Centre, 3rd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague Prague, Czech Republic.
authors: Yuliya
authors: Y
authors: Zaytseva
authors: Institute of Clinical Radiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany.
authors: Thomas
authors: T
authors: Meindl
authors: Institute of Clinical Radiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany.
authors: Janusch
authors: J
authors: Blautzik
authors: Institute of Clinical Radiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany.
authors: Maximilian
authors: M
authors: Reiser
authors: Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany ; Human Science Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany ; Parmenides Center for Art and Science Pullach, Germany ; Department of Psychology and Key Laboratory of Machine Perception (MoE), Peking University Beijing, China.
authors: Yan
authors: Y
authors: Bao
keywords: basic emotions; functional magnetic resonance imaging; language processing; musical training; prosody; temporal processing