Brain mapping of emotional prosody in patients with drug-resistant temporal epilepsy: An indicator of plasticity.

Introduction: Emotional prosody, a suprasegmental component of language, is predominantly processed by right temporo-frontal areas of the cerebral cortex. In temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), brain disturbances affecting prosody processing frequently occur. This research assesses compensatory brain mechanisms of prosody processing in refractory TLE using fMRI.

Emotional salience enhances intelligibility in adverse acoustic conditions.

Introduction: Emotion facilitates word recognition under adverse acoustic conditions. We use an auditory emotional paradigm to evaluate the ability to distinguish words from irrelevant random stimuli, elucidating its neural correlates. Secondarily, we evaluate the impact of schizotypy traits on this capacity.