Sunday, May 31, 2009

Emotional speech leaves ‘signature’ on the brain


Filed under: Language and the brain

If I was reading this sentence aloud, your brain would be able to interpret whether I was speaking in anger, joy, relief, or sadness. That’s because emotions in speech leave distinct “signatures” in the brain of the listener.

Now, for the first time, brain scans have now characterised those patterns. The finding could help determine where in the brain deficits in emotion processing occur in people with psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia.

Full article: New Scientist


See also:

>  Emotional speech leaves ‘signature’ on the brain
>  New Findings Suggesting Emotional Component to Speech Disorder May Offer Clues to Treatment
>  Study Captures Brain’s Activity Processing Speech
>  Dartmouth researchers find a neural signature of bilingualism
>  New brain mechanism identified for interpreting speech

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