Modulation of the neural network involved in the processing of anger prosody: The role of task-relevance and social phobia

Quadflieg, Susanne; Mohr, Alexander T.; Mentzel, Hans Joachim; Miltner, Wolfgang H. R.; Straube, Thomas

doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2008.01.014

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“…The evaluation of the stimuli revealed 76.25% (SD,19.36) correct classification of the anger and 73.16% (SD,20.16) correct classification of the neutral prosodic stimuli. These results are in line with results of other evaluation studies (Banse and Scherer, 1996;Juslin and Laukka, 2001;Quadflieg et al, 2008;Wiethoff et al, 2009). The two visual stimuli were a centered white cross or circle on a black background.…”

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“…These studies showed higher activation to angry prosody in the amygdala and the superior temporal cortex, regardless of the attended ear. Moreover, Quadflieg et al (2008) and Ethofer et al (2009) also showed higher activation of the amygdala and the superior temporal cortex to angry versus neutral prosody regardless of attentional conditions. Prosodic features are powerful signals during interpersonal contact since they enable the reliable discrimination and identification of a speaker's emotional state (Frick, 1985;Banse and Scherer, 1996).…”

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“…Prosodic stimuli were evaluated in a previous study (Quadflieg et al, 2008) and consisted of a set of semantically neutral bisyllabic nouns (five letters) spoken in either angry or neutral prosody by two women and two men. Stimuli were recorded and digitized through an audio interface with a 44 kHz sampling rate and a 16 bit resolution.…”

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“…The analysis was conducted in regions of interest (ROI; superior temporal region, including the superior temporal gyrus, superior temporal sulcus, and amygdale), which showed automatic responses to angry prosody in previous studies, and exploratory for the whole brain. ROIs were defined with help of Talairach daemon software (Lancaster et al, 2000) and according to our previous studies (Straube et al, 2004(Straube et al, , 2005(Straube et al, , 2010Quadflieg et al, 2008). Statistical parametric maps resulting from the voxelwise analysis were considered significant for statistical values that survived a cluster-based correction for multiple comparisons as implemented in Brain Voyager (Goebel et al, 2006), which is based on a 3D extension of the randomization procedure described by Forman and colleagues (1995).…”

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“…Several studies showed increased brain responses to angry prosody, even if subjects' attention was distracted from the emotional content (Quadflieg et al, 2008;Ethofer et al, 2009) or the emotional stimulus Sander et al, 2005). Thus, higher activation of the amygdala and the superior temporal cortex to angry voices was shown regardless of the focus of attention during dichotic listening Sander et al, 2005) or during the variation of feature-based auditory attention (Quadflieg et al, 2008;Ethofer et al, 2009). These findings have been interpreted as evidence for a mandatory processing of threatening voices .…”

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Visual Attention Modulates Brain Activation to Angry Voices

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In accordance with influential models proposing prioritized processing of threat, previous studies have shown automatic brain responses to angry prosody in the amygdala and the auditory cortex under auditory distraction conditions. However, it is unknown whether the automatic processing of angry prosody is also observed during cross-modal distraction. The current fMRI study investigated brain responses to angry versus neutral prosodic stimuli during visual distraction. During scanning, participants were exposed to angry or neutral prosodic stimuli while visual symbols were displayed simultaneously. By means of task requirements, participants either attended to the voices or to the visual stimuli. While the auditory task revealed pronounced activation in the auditory cortex and amygdala to angry versus neutral prosody, this effect was absent during the visual task. Thus, our results show a limitation of the automaticity of the activation of the amygdala and auditory cortex to angry prosody. The activation of these areas to threat-related voices depends on modality-specific attention.

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Some people search for intense sensations such as being scared by frightening movies while others do not. The brain mechanisms underlying such inter-individual differences are not clear. Testing theoretical models, we investigated neural correlates of anxiety and the personality trait sensation seeking in 40 subjects who watched threatening and neutral scenes from scary movies during functional magnetic resonance imaging. Threat versus neutral scenes induced increased activation in anterior cingulate cortex, insula, thalamus, and visual areas. Movie-induced anxiety correlated positively with activation in dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, indicating a role for this area in the subjective experience of being scared. Sensation seeking-scores correlated positively with brain activation to threat versus neutral scenes in visual areas and in thalamus and anterior insula, i.e. regions involved in the induction and representation of arousal states. For the insula and thalamus, these outcomes were partly due to an inverse relation between sensation seeking scores and brain activation during neutral film clips. These results support models predicting cerebral hypoactivation in high sensation seekers during neutral stimulation, which may be compensated by more intense sensations such as watching scary movies.

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Modulation of the neural network involved in the processing of anger prosody: The role of task-relevance and social phobia

Cited by 87 publications

References 49 publications

Visual Attention Modulates Brain Activation to Angry Voices

Visual Attention Modulates Brain Activation to Angry Voices

The Social Neuroscience of Social Anxiety Disorder

The volatility of the amygdala response to masked fearful eyes

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