Unlike the aphasic syndromes, the organization of affective prosody in brain has remained
controversial because affective-prosodic deficits may occur after left or right brain damage. …

Background: Affective prosody is a nonlinguistic aspect of language that conveys emotion
and attitude during discourse. It is a dominant function of the right hemisphere. Because skills …

The Aprosodia Battery was developed to distinguish different patterns of affective-prosodic
deficits in patients with left versus right brain damage by using affective utterances with …

Most clinical research has focused on intensity differences of facial expressions between
the right and left hemiface to explore lateralization of emotions in the brain. Observations by …

Affective prosody is a nonlinguistic aspect of language that conveys emotions and attitudes
during discourse. In this study the neurological basis of affective prosodic comprehension (…

The relationship between a biological process and a behavioral trait indicates a proximate
mechanism by which natural selection can act. In that context, examining an aspect of infant …

Subjective human judgments of emotion in speech have been considered to be less reliable
than acoustic analyses in scientific studies, but acoustic analyses have had limited ability to …

Objective: Leukoaraiosis (LA) is a common finding on MRI scans of the elderly. However, its
exact relationship to cognitive decline and dementia is in dispute. Because LA involves the …

Introduction: Because of increasing numbers of patients with diseases that cause dementia,
primary care physicians must use efficient assessment procedures in their clinics. Important …

Most clinical research assumes that modulation of facial expressions is lateralized predominantly
across the right-left hemiface. However, social psychological research suggests that …