Comprehension of emotional prosody following unilateral hemispheric lesions: Processing defect versus distraction defect

D Bowers, HB Coslett, RM Bauer, LJ Speedie… - Neuropsychologia, 1987 - Elsevier
Two studies were conducted in order to determine whether the poor performance of RHD
patients on emotional prosody tasks could be attributed to a defect in perceiving …

The role of the right hemisphere in emotional communication

LX Blonder, D Bowers, KM Heilman - Brain, 1991 - academic.oup.com
Previous research has established that patients with right hemisphere damage (RHD) are
impaired in the comprehension of emotional prosody and facial expression. There are …

Affective prosodic disturbance subsequent to right hemisphere stroke: A clinical application

RT Wertz, CR Henschel, LL Auther, JR Ashford… - Journal of …, 1998 - Elsevier
We examined Ross'(1981) hypothesis regarding the disruption of affective prosody
subsequent to right hemisphere brain damage (RHD). Twenty patients who had suffered a …

Speech prosody in affective contexts in Thai patients with right hemisphere lesions

J Gandour, J Larsen, S Dechongkit, S Ponglorpisit… - Brain and …, 1995 - Elsevier
The production of speech prosody in emotional contexts was examined in Thai patients: with
unilateral right hemisphere damage. Twelve right hemisphere patients and nine normals …

Unilateral brain damage, prosodic comprehension deficits, and the acoustic cues to prosody

MD Pell, SR Baum - Brain and Language, 1997 - Elsevier
Stimuli from two previously presented comprehension tasks of affective and linguistic
prosody (Pell & Baum, 1997) were analyzed acoustically and subjected to several …

Recognition of prosody following unilateral brain lesion: influence of functional and structural attributes of prosodic contours

MD Pell - Neuropsychologia, 1998 - Elsevier
The perception of prosodic distinctions by adults with unilateral right-(RHD) and left-
hemisphere (LHD) damage and subjects without brain injury was assessed through six …

Comprehension of affective and nonaffective prosody

KM Heilman, D Bowers, L Speedie, HB Coslett - Neurology, 1984 - AAN Enterprises
We studied patients with damage of either the right (RHD) or left hemisphere (LHD) and
control subjects to determine whether the RHD patients had a global or limited prosodic …

Fundamental frequency encoding of linguistic and emotional prosody by right hemisphere-damaged speakers

MD Pell - Brain and language, 1999 - Elsevier
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 …

Effects of right and left hemisphere cerebrovascular lesions on discrimination of prosodic and semantic aspects of affect in sentences

S Lalande, CMJ Braun, N Charlebois, HA Whitaker - Brain and language, 1992 - Elsevier
Ten nonaphasic left cerebrovascular accident (CVA) patients, 12 right CVA patients, and 16
normals were matched for age, education, lesion sizes, and postonset intervals; all were …

Understanding emotional prosody activates right hemisphere regions

MS George, PI Parekh, N Rosinsky, TA Ketter… - Archives of …, 1996 - jamanetwork.com
Background: Defects in expressing or understanding the affective or emotional tone of
speech (aprosodias) have been associated with right hemisphere dysfunction, while defects …