Ear asymmetry in perception of emotional non-verbal stimuli

Carmon, Amiram; Nachshon, Israel

doi:10.1016/0001-6918(73)90002-4

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“…Some particularly relevant acoustical features related to emotional prosody, however, seem to involve the right hemisphere to a greater extent and induce more stimulus-related processing in this hemisphere (Ross & Monnot, 2008), as shown by neuroimaging results ( Wildgruber, Ackermann, Kreifelts, & Ethofer, 2006;Sander & Scheich, 2001) and behavioral studies such as the dichotic listening task (Carmon & Nachshon, 1973;Haggard & Parkinson, 1971). This lateralization is in line with our findings, which indicated that the modulation effect was mainly driven by targets presented to the left visual field, which are primarily processed by the right hemisphere.…”

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Cross-modal Emotional Attention: Emotional Voices Modulate Early Stages of Visual Processing

Brosch

Grandjean²,

Sander³

et al. 2009

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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Emotional attention, the boosting of the processing of emotionally relevant stimuli, has, up to now, mainly been investigated within a sensory modality, for instance, by using emotional pictures to modulate visual attention. In real-life environments, however, humans typically encounter simultaneous input to several different senses, such as vision and audition. As multiple signals entering different channels might originate from a common, emotionally relevant source, the prioritization of emotional stimuli should be able to operate across modalities. In this study, we explored cross-modal emotional attention. Spatially localized utterances with emotional and neutral prosody served as cues for a visually presented target in a cross-modal dot-probe task. Participants were faster to respond to targets that appeared at the spatial location of emotional compared to neutral prosody. Event-related brain potentials revealed emotional modulation of early visual target processing at the level of the P1 component, with neural sources in the striate visual cortex being more active for targets that appeared at the spatial location of emotional compared to neutral prosody. These effects were not found using synthesized control sounds matched for mean fundamental frequency and amplitude envelope. These results show that emotional attention can operate across sensory modalities by boosting early sensory stages of processing, thus facilitating the multimodal assessment of emotionally relevant stimuli in the environment.

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Cross-modal Emotional Attention: Emotional Voices Modulate Early Stages of Visual Processing

Brosch

Grandjean²,

Sander³

et al. 2009

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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“…Memory for faces (Geffen, Bradshaw, & Wallace 1971), memory for forms (Milner 1971), and perception of human emotion (Carmon & Nachshon 1973) have been associated with right-hemisphere brain function; these abilities are also characteristic of fieldsensitive people. On the other hand, many verbal abilities as well as some measures of body articulation (Kinsbourne & Warrington 1962) have been related to left-hemisphere function; field-independent people are more likely to demonstrate superior performance on measures of these constructs.…”

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Hemispheric Processing and Cognitive Styles in Learning-Disabled and Normal Children

Guyer¹,

Friedman²

1975

Child Development

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A paradigm of specialized brain hemisphere processing abilities was used to test cognitive skills and cognitive style in "learning-disabled" (LD) and "normal" children. Results indicate that (1) verbal ability is not a unitary factor, and LD children are deficient in only some aspects of verbal ability; (2) the LD group perform as well as the control group on right-hemisphere tests; (3) LD boys are more field sensitive (field dependent) than the control boys; (4) LD children may be attempting to use a nonverbal information processing mode to deal with academic tasks. The need for information on nonverbal processing skills in order to aid verbal processing is discussed.

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“…Research on normal intact subjects using dichotic listening (Ley and Bryden, 1982;Carmon and Nachshon, 1973;Haggard and Parkinson, 1971) and conjugate lateral eye movement (Schwartz et al, 1975) as well as in some visual laterality experiments (Landis et al, 1979;Ley and Bryden, 1979) have suggested, despite some methodological difficulties, a special facility in the right hemisphere for the perception and analysis of the emotional content of stimuli. In addition the finding that the left side of the face is more expressive has led researchers to argue that the right hemisphere also controls the expression of emotion (Campbell, 1978;Sackheim and Gur, 1978;Moscovitch and Olds, 1982).…”

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The social and emotional consequences of head injury and stroke

Newman

1984

Applied Psychology

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Ear asymmetry in perception of emotional non-verbal stimuli

Cited by 206 publications

References 12 publications

Cross-modal Emotional Attention: Emotional Voices Modulate Early Stages of Visual Processing

Cross-modal Emotional Attention: Emotional Voices Modulate Early Stages of Visual Processing

Hemispheric Processing and Cognitive Styles in Learning-Disabled and Normal Children

The social and emotional consequences of head injury and stroke

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