Hemispheric processing of affective and linguistic intonation contours in normal subjects

In a previous study of the comprehension of linguistic prosody in brain-damaged subjects, S. R. Grant and W. O. Dingwall (1984. The role of the right hemisphere in processing linguistic prosody, presentation at the Academy of Aphasia, 1984) demonstrated that the right hemisphere (RH) of nonaphasic p...

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Published in:Brain and language 1988, Vol.33 (1), p.16-26
Main Authors: Shipley-Brown, Frances, Dingwall, William O., Berlin, Charles I., Yeni-Komshian, Grace, Gordon-Salant, Sandra
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Affect
Behavioral psychophysiology
Biological and medical sciences
Dominance, Cerebral
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Humans
Male
Psycholinguistics
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Speech Perception
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Summary:In a previous study of the comprehension of linguistic prosody in brain-damaged subjects, S. R. Grant and W. O. Dingwall (1984. The role of the right hemisphere in processing linguistic prosody, presentation at the Academy of Aphasia, 1984) demonstrated that the right hemisphere (RH) of nonaphasic patients plays a prominent role in the processing of stress and intonation. The present study examines laterality for affective and linguistic prosody using the dichotic listening paradigm. Both types of prosody elicited a significant left ear advantage. This advantage was more pronounced for affective than for linguistic prosody. These findings strongly support previously documented evidence of RH involvement in the processing of affective prosody ( R. G. Ley & M. P. Bryden, 1982. A dissociation of right and left hemispheric effects for recognizing emotional tone and verbal content, Brain and Cognition, 1, 3–9). They also provide support for the previously mentioned demonstration of RH involvement in the processing of linguistic intonation ( S. Blumstein & W. E. Cooper, 1974. Hemispheric processing of intonation contours, Cortex, 10, 146–158; Grant & Dingwall, 1984).
ISSN:0093-934X
1090-2155
DOI:10.1016/0093-934X(88)90051-X