This review highlights the importance of right hemisphere language functions for successful
social communication and advances the hypothesis that the core deficit in psychosis is a …

Spoken language comprehension requires the coordination of different subprocesses in
time. After the initial acoustic analysis the system has to extract segmental information such …

• It was recently proposed that the affective components of language, encompassing
prosody and emotional gesturing, are a dominant function of the right hemisphere, and that …

Cognitive Neuroscience of Language provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and
pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in this exciting field. It …

By means of fMRI measurements, the present study identifies brain regions in left and right
peri‐sylvian areas that subserve grammatical or prosodic processing. Normal volunteers …

To understand how language influences the vocal communication of emotion, we
investigated how discrete emotions are recognized and acoustically differentiated in four …

During acoustic communication in humans, information about a speaker's emotional state is
predominantly conveyed by modulation of the tone of voice (emotional or affective prosody) …

Unlike the aphasic syndromes, the organization of affective prosody in brain has remained
controversial because affective-prosodic deficits may occur after left or right brain damage …

Speakers of all human languages regularly use intonational pitch to convey linguistic
meaning, such as to emphasize a particular word. Listeners extract pitch movements from …

In order to investigate the lateralization of emotional speech we recorded the brain
responses to three emotional intonations in two conditions, ie,“normal” speech and …