Disentangling the brain networks supporting affective speech comprehension

► Language, emotion and mentalizing areas support emotional sentence classification. ► These areas were classified into 3 networks: perisylvian, amygdalar and medial. ► The medial network was active only during emotional sentence classification. ► Perisylvian areas were less active during grammatical than emotional classification. ► These two networks converge in the inferior angular gyrus.