Neocortical contributions to emotional processing are discussed. First, parameters critical to
the neuropsychological study of emotion are examined: interhemispheric (right, left) and …

This article presents a review of the neural mechanisms underlying emotional processing
deficits (EPDs) in individuals with unilateral brain damage. First, key theoretical issues …

Would people exhibit similarity-attraction and consistency-attraction toward unambiguously
computer-generated speech even when personality is clearly not relevant? In Experiment 1 …

• It was recently proposed that the affective components of language, encompassing
prosody and emotional gesturing, are a dominant function of the right hemisphere, and that …

By means of fMRI measurements, the present study identifies brain regions in left and right
peri‐sylvian areas that subserve grammatical or prosodic processing. Normal volunteers …

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 …

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 …

This study examines the contribution of the lexical/verbal channel to emotional processing in
16 right brain-damaged (RBD), 16 left brain-damaged (LBD) and 16 normal control (NC) …

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 …

COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM September 2000/Vol. 43, No. 9 37 computerized speech
systems? The straightforward answer is that the best approach for creating systems that …