Past research has shown that lesions in the left cerebral hemisphere often result in aphasia,
while lesions in the right hemisphere frequently impair the production of emotional prosody …

Background: Several studies have demonstrated that patients with right hemisphere
damage, when compared with left-hemisphere-damaged controls, are impaired at …

Background and objectives. Whereas injury to the left hemisphere induces aphasia, injury to
the right hemisphere's perisylvian region induces an impairment of emotional speech …

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 …

Although affective prosody appears to be a dominant function of the right hemisphere, its
degre of lateralization has not yet been established since various publications have reported …

Unlike the aphasic syndromes, the organization of affective prosody in brain has remained
controversial because affective-prosodic deficits may occur after left or right brain damage …

We examined a series of 59 patients with acute stroke lesions for the presence of
comprehension emotional aprosody. Based on a standardized assessment of …

Studies of patients with brain damage, as well as studies with normal subjects have
revealed that the right hemisphere is important for recognizing emotions expressed by faces …

Abstract Language is traditionally considered to be a dominant function of the left
hemisphere because of its role in modulating the propositional or literal aspects of language …

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