Right hemisphere emotional perception: Evidence across multiple channels.

Borod, Joan C.; Cicero, Barbara A.; Obler, Loraine K.; Welkowitz, Joan; Erhan, Hulya M.; Santschi, Cornelia; Grunwald, Ilana S.; Agosti, R.; Whalen, John R.

doi:10.1037//0894-4105.12.3.446

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“…Our observed recruitment of activity in the right hemisphere of brocas analogue aligns with a longstanding hypothesis of right-hemispheric preference for affect processing (Borod et al, 1998), potentially reflecting right inferior frontal gyrus/sulcus response to prosodic features of affective vocalisations (Rota et al, 2009). More recent work demonstrates that this network may not be quite so right-sided dominant (Frühholz & Grandjean, 2013), or in fact play a role in specific mediation of other areas during voice recognition tasks (Aglieri et al, 2018).…”

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WITHDRAWN: Extracting Auditory Emotion in Noise: A distributed auxiliary auditory network supporting affect processing of non-predictably obscured vocalisations

Swanborough,

Frühholz

2024

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Decoding affect information encoded within a vocally produced signal is a key part of daily communication. The acoustic channels that carry the affect information, however, are not uniformly distributed across a spectrotemporal space meaning that natural listening environments with dynamic, competing noise may unpredictably obscure some spectrotemporal regions of the vocalisation, reducing the potential information available to the listener. In this study, we utilise behavioural and functional MRI investigations to first assess which spectrotemporal regions of a human vocalisation contribute to affect perception in the listener, and then use a reverse-correlation fMRI analysis to see which structures underpin this perceptually challenging task when categorisation relevant acoustic information is unmasked by noise. Our results show that, despite the challenging task and non-uniformity of contributing spectral regions of affective vocalizations, a distributed network of (non-primary auditory) brain regions in the frontal cortex, basal ganglia, and lateral limbic regions supports affect processing in noise. Given the conditions for recruitment and previously established functional contributions of these regions, we propose that this task is underpinned by a reciprocal network between frontal cortical regions and ventral limbic regions that assist in flexible adaptation and tuning to stimuli, while a hippocampal and parahippocampal regions support the auditory system’s processing of the degraded auditory information via associative and contextual processing.

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WITHDRAWN: Extracting Auditory Emotion in Noise: A distributed auxiliary auditory network supporting affect processing of non-predictably obscured vocalisations

Swanborough,

Frühholz

2024

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“… Lockard, Daley and Gunderson (1979) first suggested that cradling on the left side could help mothers in the appraisal of the emotional state of infants. In particular, mothers might take advantage of the more direct projections to their right hemisphere, which is specialized for recognizing emotional facial expressions ( Borod et al, 1998 ; Gainotti, 2012 ; Prete, Capotosto, Zappasodi, & Tommasi, 2018 ). On the contrary, the reversal of the typical lateral cradling pattern seems to be associated with depression, stress, and anxiety in mothers ( de Château, Holmberg, & Winberg, 1978 ; Morgan, Hunt, Sieratzki, Woll, & Tomlinson, 2018 ; Reissland, Hopkins, Helms, & Williams, 2009 ; Suter, Huggenberger, Blumenthal, & Schachinger, 2011 ; Suter, Huggenberger, & Schächinger, 2007 ; Weatherill et al, 2004 ).…”

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“… Manning and Chamberlain (1991) tested the hypothesis that left cradling might facilitate the interpretation of infant’s emotional state by observing interactions with dolls and infants in cradlers with the left or right eye covered, and found that covering the left but not the right eye reduced the left-side preference. Therefore, from the mother’s point of view, the left cradling would facilitate the monitoring of her infant’s well-being through her left visual and auditory fields ( Manning & Chamberlain, 1991 ; Sieratzki & Woll, 2002 ) by capitalizing on the right hemisphere specialization for emotional facial expressions ( Borod et al, 1998 ; Gainotti, 2012 ; Prete et al, 2018 ), and in particular for faces expressing a subset of negative emotions (i.e., anger, fear and sadness; Najt, Bayer, & Hausmann, 2013 ) and for faces of crying infants ( Best, Womer, & Queen, 1994 ). From the infant’s point of view, the left cradling allows to get the best emotional information through a constant access to the left side (i.e., the more expressive one in humans) of the mother’s face ( Hauser, 1993 ).…”

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The Relationship Between the Left-Cradling Bias and Attachment to Parents and Partner

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Mothers usually cradle their infants to the left of their body midline, an asymmetry that seems to be a typically female lateral preference. This bias is deemed to be an evolutionary facilitator of communication between cradling and cradled individuals and is believed to be strongly related to hemispheric specialization for complex socio-affective behaviors. Thus, left cradling might facilitate affective interactions in females with typical brain organization, probably due to a right-hemisphere dominance for social attachment. In this study, we investigated cradling-side preferences in 288 young females as a function of their attachment styles to parents and partners. A left-cradling bias was more frequent in participants experiencing positive relationships with their mother and romantic partners. These findings indicate that the left-cradling bias may be associated with high-quality social attachment behaviors in females and, therefore, can be considered as a natural index of socio-emotional attunement between the cradling and cradled individuals.

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“…The unilateral presentation of faces may have had dissimilar advantages for right-handed and left-handed individuals due to differences in hemispheric lateralization related to the processing of emotions. According to the right-hemisphere hypothesis, the right half of the brain is specialized for processing emotional information (Borod et al, 1998).…”

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Trait anger and negative interpretation bias in neutral face perception

Rohrbeck,

Kersting,

Suslow

2023

Front. Psychol.

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IntroductionAnger is a basic emotion helping people to achieve goals by preparing the body for action and prompting others to change their behavior but is also associated with health issues and risks. Trait anger, the disposition to experience angry feelings, goes along with an attribution of hostile traits to others. Negative distortions in the interpretation of social information have also been observed in anxiety and depression. The present study examined the associations between components of anger and negative interpretation tendencies in the perception of ambiguous and neutral schematic faces controlling for anxiety, depressed mood, and other variables.MethodsA sample of 150 young adults performed a computer-based perception of facial expressions task and completed the State–Trait Anger Expression Inventory (STAXI-2) along with other self-report measures and tests.ResultsTrait anger and anger expression correlated with the perception of negative affects in neutral but not in ambiguous faces. More specifically, trait anger was linked to the attribution of anger, sadness, and anxiety to neutral faces. Trait anger predicted perceived negative affects in neutral faces when adjusting for anxiety, depression, and state anger.DiscussionFor neutral schematic faces, the present data support an association between trait anger and negatively biased interpretation of facial expression, which is independent of anxiety and depressed mood. The negative interpretation of neutral schematic faces in trait angry individuals seems not only to comprise the attribution of anger but also of negative emotions signaling weakness. Neutral schematic facial expressions might be useful stimuli in the future study of anger-related interpretation biases.

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Right hemisphere emotional perception: Evidence across multiple channels.

Cited by 140 publications

References 54 publications

WITHDRAWN: Extracting Auditory Emotion in Noise: A distributed auxiliary auditory network supporting affect processing of non-predictably obscured vocalisations

WITHDRAWN: Extracting Auditory Emotion in Noise: A distributed auxiliary auditory network supporting affect processing of non-predictably obscured vocalisations

The Relationship Between the Left-Cradling Bias and Attachment to Parents and Partner

Trait anger and negative interpretation bias in neutral face perception

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