Heilman K M, Bowers D, Speedie L, Coslett H B
Neurology. 1984 Jul;34(7):917-21. doi: 10.1212/wnl.34.7.917.
We studied patients with damage of either the right (RHD) or left hemisphere (LHD) and control subjects to determine whether the RHD patients had a global or limited prosodic defect. Compared with LHD patients and controls, RHD subjects had decreased comprehension of emotional prosody. Both LHD and RHD groups had more impaired comprehension of propositional prosody than controls, but the RHD and LHD groups did not differ. The right hemisphere, therefore, seems to be dominant for comprehending emotional prosody but not propositional prosody.
我们研究了右半球损伤（RHD）或左半球损伤（LHD）的患者以及对照受试者，以确定RHD患者是否存在整体或有限的韵律缺陷。与LHD患者和对照相比，RHD受试者对情感韵律的理解能力下降。LHD组和RHD组对命题韵律的理解都比对照组受损更严重，但RHD组和LHD组之间没有差异。因此，右半球似乎在理解情感韵律而非命题韵律方面占主导地位。
