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 …

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 …

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

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 …

Background: Defects in expressing or understanding the affective or emotional tone of
speech (aprosodias) have been associated with right hemisphere dysfunction, while defects …

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

The vocal expression of humans includes expressions of emotions, such as anger or
happiness, and pragmatic intonations, such as interrogative or affirmative, embedded within …

The intent and feelings of the speaker are often conveyed less by what they say than by how
they say it, in terms of the affective prosody–modulations in pitch, loudness, rate, and rhythm …

It is well established that vision plays a role in segmental speech perception, but the role of
vision in prosodic speech perception is less clear. We report on the difficulties in prosodic …

Speech prosody can be decomposed into three features: pitch contour (variations in
fundamental frequency, f0), word stress (amplitude variation, dB), and timing variation …