Expressions of basic emotions (joy, sadness, anger, fear, disgust) can be recognized pan-culturally from the face and it is assumed that these a speaker's voice, regardless an individual's culture or linguistic ability. Here, we compared how monolingual speakers Argentine Spanish recognize pseudo-utterances ("nonsense speech") produced in their native language three foreign languages (English, German, Arabic). Results indicated vocal expressions could decoded each condition at accuracy...

In speech comprehension, the processing of auditory information and linguistic context are mutually dependent. This functional magnetic resonance imaging study examines how semantic expectancy ("cloze probability") in variably intelligible sentences ("noise vocoding") modulates brain bases comprehension. First, intelligibility-modulated activation along superior temporal sulci (STS) was extended anteriorly posteriorly low-cloze (e.g., "she weighs flour") but restricted to a mid-superior...

Metrical patterning and rhyme are frequently employed in poetry but also infant-directed speech, play, rites, festive events. Drawing on four line-stanzas from 19th 20th German that feature end regular meter, the present study tested hypothesis meter have an impact aesthetic liking, emotional involvement, affective valence attributions. Hypotheses postulate such effects been advocated ever since ancient rhetoric poetics, yet they barely empirically tested. More recently, field of cognitive...

Abstract Acting in and adapting to a dynamically changing environment necessitates precisely encode the timing of sensory events, time our own (re-)actions them. Cerebellar (CE) basal ganglia (BG) circuitries play fundamental complementary roles processes. While CE seems use precise (when an event occurs) temporal intervals generate predictions next occurs), BG uses relative extract beat rhythmic sequences. As it is generally difficult record data from respective patient groups parallel,...

Speech comprehension has been shown to be a strikingly bilateral process, but the differential contributions of subfields left and right auditory cortices have remained elusive. The hypothesis that areas engage predominantly in decoding fast temporal perturbations signal whereas are relatively more driven by changes frequency spectrum not directly tested speech or music. This brain-imaging study independently manipulated itself along spectral domain using noise-band vocoding. In parametric...

Abstract Coherent behavior depends on attentional control that detects and resolves conflict between opposing actions. The current functional magnetic resonance imaging study tested the hypothesis emotion triggers to speed up processing in particularly salient situations. Therefore, we presented emotionally negative neutral words a version of flanker task. In response conflict, found activation dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) amygdala for emotional stimuli. When coincided, region...

Abstract The present study investigated the interaction of emotional prosody and word valence during comprehension in men women. In a prosody-word interference task, participants listened to positive, neutral, negative words that were spoken with happy, angry prosody. Participants asked rate while ignoring prosody, or vice versa. Congruent stimuli responded faster more accurately as compared incongruent stimuli. This behavioral effect was salient for task than prosodic comparable between...

Abstract This study considered a relation between rhythm perception skills and individual differences in phonological awareness grammar abilities, which are two language crucial for academic achievement. Twenty‐five typically developing 6‐year‐old children were given standardized assessments of perception, awareness, morpho‐syntactic competence, non‐verbal cognitive ability. Rhythm accounted 48% the variance competence after controlling IQ , socioeconomic status, prior musical activities....

It is well established that auditory cueing improves gait in patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease (IPD). Disease-related reductions speed and step length can be improved by providing rhythmical cues via a metronome or music. However, effects on cognitive aspects of motor control have yet to thoroughly investigated. If synchronization movement an cue relies supramodal timing system involved perceptual, motor, sensorimotor integration, expected affect both perceptual timing. Here, we...