To evaluate the right hemisphere's role in encoding speech prosody, an acoustic
investigation of timing characteristics was undertaken in speakers with and without focal …

Purpose 'Affective prosody'defines the supra-segmental features of speech that, when
manipulated, can change the type and intensity of emotion conveyed by the speaker …

Impaired expression of emotion through pitch, loudness, rate, and rhythm of speech
(affective prosody) is common and disabling after right hemisphere (RH) stroke. These …

Introduction Speakers naturally produce prosodic variations depending on their emotional
state. Receptive prosody has several processing stages. We aimed to conduct lesion …

After a right hemisphere stroke, more than half of the patients are impaired in their capacity
to produce or comprehend speech prosody. Yet, and despite its social-cognitive …

Hemispheric contributions to the processing of emotional speech prosody were investigated
by comparing adults with a focal lesion involving the right (n= 9) or left (n= 11) hemisphere …

To illuminate the nature of the right hemisphere's involvement in expressive prosodic
functions, a story completion task was administered to matched groups of right hemisphere …

Objectives The role of the right cerebral hemisphere in nonverbal speech activities remains
controversial. Most research supports the dominant role of the right hemisphere in the …

This study examined the right hemisphere contribution to the production of linguistic prosody
where acoustic features of prosodic structures in different linguistic contexts were examined …

Non-canonical sentence comprehension impairments are well-documented in aphasia.
Studies of neurotypical controls indicate that prosody can aid comprehension by facilitating …