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

Prosody is an important feature of language, comprising intonation, loudness, and tempo.
Emotional prosodic processing forms an integral part of our social interactions. The main …

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 …

In order to investigate the lateralization of emotional speech we recorded the brain
responses to three emotional intonations in two conditions, ie,“normal” speech and …

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 …

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 …

To test a number of hypotheses concerning the functional lateralization of speech prosody,
the ability of unilaterally right-hemisphere-damaged (RHD), unilaterally left-hemisphere …

The basal ganglia (BG) have been functionally linked to emotional processing [Pell, MD,
Leonard, CL, 2003. Processing emotional tone form speech in Parkinson's Disease: a role …

Recently, research on the lateralization of linguistic and nonlinguistic (emotional) prosody
has experienced a revival. However, both neuroimaging and patient evidence do not draw a …

Prosody refers to the melodic and rhythmic aspects of speech. Two forms of prosody are
typically distinguished:'affective prosody'refers to the expression of emotion in speech …