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JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Volume 8, Issue 5, Pages 607-622Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S1355617702801394
Keywords
frontal lobe; temporal lobe; limbic system; functional magnetic resonance imaging; emotion; semantics
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- NIDCD NIH HHS [R01-DC03455] Funding Source: Medline
- NIMH NIH HHS [P50-MH52384] Funding Source: Medline
- NINDS NIH HHS [R01 NS33576] Funding Source: Medline
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Previous studies showed that cortex in the anterior portions of the left frontal and temporal lobes participates in generating words with emotional connotations and processing pictures with emotional content. If these cortices process the semantic attribute of emotional connotation, they should be active whenever processing emotional connotation, without respect to modality of input or mode of output, Thus, we hypothesized that they would activate during monitoring of words with emotional connotations. Sixteen normal subjects performed semantic monitoring of words with emotional connotations. animal names, and implement names during fMRI. Cortex in the anterior left frontal lobe demonstrated significant activity for monitoring words with emotional connotations compared to monitoring tone sequences, animal names. or implement names. Together. the current and previous results implicate cortex in the anterior left frontal lobe in semantic processing of emotional connotation, consistent with connections of this cortex to paralimbic association areas. Current findings also indicate that neural substrates for processing emotional connotation are independent of substrates for processing the categories of living and nonliving things.
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