期刊
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
卷 34, 期 8, 页码 1971-1981出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22041
关键词
emotion; vocal expressions; prosody; multivariate pattern analysis; fMRI
资金
- German Science Foundation [FOR-499]
- Max Planck Society
- Bernstein Initiative of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Speech is an important carrier of emotional information. However, little is known about how different vocal emotion expressions are recognized in a receiver's brain. We used multivariate pattern analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging data to investigate to which degree distinct vocal emotion expressions are represented in the receiver's local brain activity patterns. Specific vocal emotion expressions are encoded in a right fronto-operculo-temporal network involving temporal regions known to subserve suprasegmental acoustic processes and a fronto-opercular region known to support emotional evaluation, and, moreover, in left temporo-cerebellar regions covering sequential processes. The right inferior frontal region, in particular, was found to differentiate distinct emotional expressions. The present analysis reveals vocal emotion to be encoded in a shared cortical network reflected by distinct brain activity patterns. These results shed new light on theoretical and empirical controversies about the perception of distinct vocal emotion expressions at the level of large-scale human brain signals. Hum Brain Mapp, 2013. (c) 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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