کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
942990 925177 2006 8 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Emotional Words: What's so Different from Just Words?
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی علوم اعصاب رفتاری
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Emotional Words: What's so Different from Just Words?
چکیده انگلیسی

Aphasic patients, in particular global aphasics, may still swear and produce emotional utterances with ease. Based on these clinical observations we investigated emotional word “reading” in a series of different experiments over 25 years, not only in aphasic patients, but also in the left (LVF) and right (RVF) visual fields of healthy subjects, and in a depth-recorded epileptic patient. Across these experiments we found: i) behaviorally a strong emotional word effect in the left visual field (right hemisphere — RH) of normals, correlating well with the emotional word performance of aphasic patients, pointing to a specific role of the right hemisphere; ii) electro-physiologically a specific early (100-140 msec) brain response to emotional words during scalp recordings in healthy subjects subsequent to right visual field (left hemisphere — LH) stimulation, that source localization procedures project to posterior areas of the right hemisphere; iii) preliminary data of a very early (60 msec) activation of the left amygdala in a depth-recorded epileptic patient when the same emotional words were presented to the right visual field (left hemisphere); and iv) a consistent gender difference showing that the above findings might be relevant for men only.Both hemispheres therefore appear to be implicated in emotional word “reading” but in different ways. We propose that the left amygdala via extrastriate connections acts as a detector of emotional word content at a very early stage of processing; that this amygdala response subsequently modulates the cortical response to emotional words asymmetrically, rendering the left visual cortex less sensitive to emotional words than that of the right hemisphere; and that this modulation is gender dependent.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Cortex - Volume 42, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 823–830
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