Hearing feelings: A quantitative meta-analysis on the neuroimaging literature of emotional prosody perception

Witteman, Jurriaan; Heuven, Vincent J. van; Schiller, Niels O.

doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.07.026

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“…Two recent meta-analyses, one of the lesion literature (Witteman et al, 2011), the other of the neuroimaging literature (Witteman et al, 2012), also seem to confirm this hypothesis, pointing to the conclusion that emotional prosody perception takes place mainly in the right frontotemporal network, but also involves the right BG. The meta-analysis of the lesion literature found statistically robust evidence of a greater deterioration in emotional prosodic performance following right rather than left hemispheric BG damage (Witteman et al, 2011).…”

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“…That being said, it is worth noting that models of emotional prosody perception allow for right hemispheric specialization at many stages in the process (see, Witteman et al, 2012 for a review of these models). Two recent meta-analyses, one of the lesion literature (Witteman et al, 2011), the other of the neuroimaging literature (Witteman et al, 2012), also seem to confirm this hypothesis, pointing to the conclusion that emotional prosody perception takes place mainly in the right frontotemporal network, but also involves the right BG.…”

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“…The perception and decoding of emotional prosody has been studied through functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and patient studies, allowing researchers to delineate a distributed neural network involved in its identification and recognition (for a recent review, see Witteman, Van Heuven, & Schiller, 2012). Accordingly, models of emotional prosody processing have long postulated the existence of multiple information processing stages related to different levels of representations (Schirmer & Kotz, 2006;Wildgruber, Ethofer, Grandjean, & Kreifelts, 2009).…”

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Vocal emotion decoding in the subthalamic nucleus: An intracranial ERP study in Parkinson’s disease

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a b s t r a c tUsing intracranial local field potential (LFP) recordings in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) undergoing deep brain stimulation (DBS), we explored the electrophysiological activity of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) in response to emotional stimuli in the auditory modality. Previous studies focused on the influence of visual stimuli. To this end, we recorded LFPs within the STN in response to angry, happy, and neutral prosodies in 13 patients with PD who had just undergone implantation of DBS electrodes. We observed specific modulation of the right STN in response to anger and happiness, as opposed to neutral prosody, occurring at around 200-300 ms post-onset, and later at around 850-950 ms post-onset for anger and at around 3250-3350 ms post-onset for happiness. Taken together with previous reports of modulated STN activity in response to emotional visual stimuli, the present results appear to confirm that the STN is involved in emotion processing irrespective of stimulus valence and sensory modality.

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“…We had participants vocalize either affectively expressive exclamations or monosyllables expressed with meaningless, though acoustically matched, pitch contours. To localize brain regions involved in perceiving affective vocalizations (Witteman et al, 2012;Belyk and Brown, 2014a), we had participants listen to actor-produced affective vocalizations, and to discriminate either the valence of the emotion being expressed in the vocalization or the pitch contour. Several analyses failed to support a functional dissociation between the two vocal-production pathways and additionally lent support to a model in which the primary process in producing affective vocalizations is the modulation of vocal parameters such as pitch: (i) vocal production activated a network of brain areas that were commonly reported in studies of vocalization (Brown et al, 2009), regardless of whether the vocalizations were affective or based solely on non-affective pitch contours; (ii) direct contrasts between the vocalization tasks failed to Notes: Locations of peak voxels for the affect perception and pitch-contour perception tasks.…”

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Pitch underlies activation of the vocal system during affective vocalization

Belyk

Brown

2015

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

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Affective prosody is that aspect of speech that conveys a speaker's emotional state through modulations in various vocal parameters, most prominently pitch. While a large body of research implicates the cingulate vocalization area in controlling affective vocalizations in monkeys, no systematic test of functional homology for this area has yet been reported in humans. In this study, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging to compare brain activations when subjects produced affective vocalizations in the form of exclamations vs non-affective vocalizations with similar pitch contours. We also examined the perception of affective vocalizations by having participants make judgments about either the emotions being conveyed by recorded affective vocalizations or the pitch contours of the same vocalizations. Production of affective vocalizations and matched pitch contours activated a highly overlapping set of brain areas, including the larynx-phonation area of the primary motor cortex and a region of the anterior cingulate cortex that is consistent with the macro-anatomical position of the cingulate vocalization area. This overlap contradicts the dominant view that these areas form two distinct vocal pathways with dissociable functions. Instead, we propose that these brain areas are nodes in a single vocal network, with an emphasis on pitch modulation as a vehicle for affective expression.

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“…On the one hand, cue-dependent lateralization hypotheses propose that right-hemisphere specialization for emotional prosody perception can be explained by a (non-prosody-specific) advantage of the right hemisphere for early acoustic processing, such as spectral processing (Van Lancker & Sidtis, 1992), since spectral parameters appear to be particularly important for decoding emotional prosody (Scherer, 2003). Indeed, a recent meta-analysis of the neuroimaging literature of emotional prosody perception revealed preliminary evidence for relative right-hemispheric specialization of the primary and secondary auditory cortex (Witteman, Van Heuven, & Schiller, 2012), which could be interpreted as (indirect) support for the cuedependent lateralization hypothesis.…”

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The nature of hemispheric specialization for prosody perception

Witteman

Goerlich-Dobre

Martens

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Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci

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Recent evidence suggests a relative righthemispheric specialization for emotional prosody perception, whereas linguistic prosody perception is under bilateral control. It is still unknown, however, how the hemispheric specialization for prosody perception might arise. Two main hypotheses have been put forward. Cue-dependent hypotheses, on the one hand, propose that hemispheric specialization is driven by specialization for the non-prosody-specific processing of acoustic cues. The functional lateralization hypothesis, on the other hand, proposes that hemispheric specialization is dependent on the communicative function of prosody, with emotional and linguistic prosody processing being lateralized to the right and left hemispheres, respectively. In the present study, the functional lateralization hypothesis of prosody perception was systematically tested by instructing one group of participants to evaluate the emotional prosody, and another group the linguistic prosody dimension of bidimensional prosodic stimuli in a dichotic-listening paradigm, while event-related potentials were recorded. The results showed that the right-ear advantage was associated with decreased latencies for an early negativity in the contralateral hemisphere. No evidence was found for functional lateralization. These findings suggest that functional lateralization effects for prosody perception are small and support the structural model of dichotic listening.

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Hearing feelings: A quantitative meta-analysis on the neuroimaging literature of emotional prosody perception

Cited by 83 publications

References 78 publications

Vocal emotion decoding in the subthalamic nucleus: An intracranial ERP study in Parkinson’s disease

Vocal emotion decoding in the subthalamic nucleus: An intracranial ERP study in Parkinson’s disease

Pitch underlies activation of the vocal system during affective vocalization

The nature of hemispheric specialization for prosody perception

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