Independent and collaborative contributions of the cerebral hemispheres to emotional processing

ER Shobe - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Presented is a model suggesting that the right hemisphere (RH) directly mediates the
identification and comprehension of positive and negative emotional stimuli, whereas the left …

Looking at the brains behind figurative language—A quantitative meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies on metaphor, idiom, and irony processing

IC Bohrn, U Altmann, AM Jacobs - Neuropsychologia, 2012 - Elsevier
A quantitative, coordinate-based meta-analysis combined data from 354 participants across
22 fMRI studies and one positron emission tomography (PET) study to identify the …

The default network dominates neural responses to evolving movie stories

E Yang, F Milisav, J Kopal, AJ Holmes… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Neuroscientific studies exploring real-world dynamic perception often overlook the influence
of continuous changes in narrative content. In our research, we utilize machine learning …

Emotional words can be embodied or disembodied: the role of superficial vs. deep types of processing

E Abbassi, I Blanchette, AI Ansaldo… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Emotional words are processed rapidly and automatically in the left hemisphere (LH) and
slowly, with the involvement of attention, in the right hemisphere (RH). This review aims to …

The psycholinguistic and affective structure of words conveying pain

E Borelli, D Crepaldi, CA Porro, C Cacciari - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Despite the flourishing research on the relationships between affect and language, the
characteristics of pain-related words, a specific type of negative words, have never been …

Acquired affective associations induce emotion effects in word recognition: an ERP study

N Fritsch, L Kuchinke - Brain and language, 2013 - Elsevier
The present study examined how contextual learning and in particular emotionality
conditioning impacts the neural processing of words, as possible key factors for the …

The causal role of prefrontal hemispheric asymmetry in valence processing of words–Insights from a combined cTBS-MEG study

K Roesmann, T Dellert, M Junghoefer, J Kissler… - Neuroimage, 2019 - Elsevier
Hemispheric asymmetries play an important role in multiple cerebral functions. Asymmetries
in prefrontal cortex (PFC) function have been suggested to regulate emotional processing in …

Level of emotion comprehension in children with mid to long term cochlear implant use: How basic and more complex emotion recognition relates to language and …

P Mancini, I Giallini, L Prosperini… - International journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Objectives The current study was designed with three main aims: To document the level of
emotional comprehension skills, from basic to more complex ones, reached by a wide …

Neurocognitive functions of prosocial and unsocial incongruency information during language comprehension: evidence from time–frequency analysis of EEG signals

S Tarai, QA Qurratul, V Ratre, A Bit - Medical & Biological Engineering & …, 2022 - Springer
This study examined neurocognitive mechanisms of prosocial and antisocial congruency in
English sentences by conducting an electroencephalography experiment. Participants …

Early prefrontal brain responses to the hedonic quality of emotional words–A simultaneous EEG and MEG study

K Keuper, P Zwitserlood, MA Rehbein, AS Eden… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The hedonic meaning of words affects word recognition, as shown by behavioral, functional
imaging, and event-related potential (ERP) studies. However, the spatiotemporal dynamics …