Belyk Michel, Brown Steven
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4M9, Canada
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4M9, Canada.
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2014 Sep;9(9):1395-403. doi: 10.1093/scan/nst124. Epub 2013 Aug 9.
Prosody refers to the melodic and rhythmic aspects of speech. Two forms of prosody are typically distinguished: 'affective prosody' refers to the expression of emotion in speech, whereas 'linguistic prosody' relates to the intonation of sentences, including the specification of focus within sentences and stress within polysyllabic words. While these two processes are united by their use of vocal pitch modulation, they are functionally distinct. In order to examine the localization and lateralization of speech prosody in the brain, we performed two voxel-based meta-analyses of neuroimaging studies of the perception of affective and linguistic prosody. There was substantial sharing of brain activations between analyses, particularly in right-hemisphere auditory areas. However, a major point of divergence was observed in the inferior frontal gyrus: affective prosody was more likely to activate Brodmann area 47, while linguistic prosody was more likely to activate the ventral part of area 44.
韵律指言语的旋律和节奏方面。通常区分出两种韵律形式:“情感韵律”指言语中情感的表达,而“语言韵律”与句子的语调有关,包括句子内焦点的确定以及多音节单词内的重音。虽然这两个过程通过对音高调制的运用而结合在一起,但它们在功能上是不同的。为了研究大脑中言语韵律的定位和偏侧化,我们对情感韵律和语言韵律感知的神经影像学研究进行了两项基于体素的元分析。分析之间存在大量大脑激活的共享,特别是在右半球听觉区域。然而,在额下回观察到一个主要的差异点:情感韵律更有可能激活布罗德曼区47,而语言韵律更有可能激活44区的腹侧部分。