BRAIN RESPONSES TO ANGRY PROSODY
Attention
and emotion seem to have separate effects on stimulus processing, reflecting a
fundamental principle of human brain organization shared by voice and face
perception. Didier Grandjean et al. (The voices of wrath: brain responses to angry prosody in meaningless
speech. Nature Neuroscience 8, 145-146, 2005)
report two functional magnetic resonance imaging experiments showing enhanced
responses in human middle superior temporal sulcus for angry relative to
neutral prosody, and distinct from any concomitant task-related attentional
modulation.