This paper reviews the major findings and hypotheses to emerge in the literature concerned
with speech prosody. Both production and perception of prosody are considered. Evidence …

• It was recently proposed that the affective components of language, encompassing
prosody and emotional gesturing, are a dominant function of the right hemisphere, and that …

The article is an overview of modern studies of brain organization and genetic correlates of
emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence is becoming the subject of more and more …

Prosody is an important feature of language, comprising intonation, loudness, and tempo.
Emotional prosodic processing forms an integral part of our social interactions. The main …

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 …

Although affective prosody appears to be a dominant function of the right hemisphere, its
degre of lateralization has not yet been established since various publications have reported …

Impairments in listening tasks that require subjects to match affective-prosodic speech
utterances with appropriate facial expressions have been reported after both left-and right …

Hemispheric contributions to the processing of emotional speech prosody were investigated
by comparing adults with a focal lesion involving the right (n= 9) or left (n= 11) hemisphere …

OBJECTIVE Although affective prosody seems to be a dominant and lateralised
communication function of the right hemisphere, focal lesions of either hemisphere may …

Receptive tasks of linguistic and affective prosody were administered to 9 right-hemisphere-
damaged (RHD), 10 left-hemisphere-damaged (LHD), and 10 age-matched control (NC) …