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Cerebral Processing of Prosodic Emotional Signals: Evaluation of a Network Model Using rTMS

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  • Heike Jacob
  • Carolin Brück
  • Christian Plewnia
  • Dirk Wildgruber

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A great number of functional imaging studies contributed to developing a cerebral network model illustrating the processing of prosody in the brain. According to this model, the processing of prosodic emotional signals is divided into three main steps, each related to different brain areas. The present study sought to evaluate parts of the aforementioned model by using low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) over two important brain regions identified by the model: the superior temporal cortex (Experiment 1) and the inferior frontal cortex (Experiment 2). The aim of both experiments was to reduce cortical activity in the respective brain areas and evaluate whether these reductions lead to measurable behavioral effects during prosody processing. However, results obtained in this study revealed no rTMS effects on the acquired behavioral data. Possible explanations for these findings are discussed in the paper.

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  • Heike Jacob & Carolin Brück & Christian Plewnia & Dirk Wildgruber, 2014. "Cerebral Processing of Prosodic Emotional Signals: Evaluation of a Network Model Using rTMS," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 9(8), pages 1-7, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0105509
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0105509
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