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Does it talk the talk? On the role of basal ganglia in emotive speech processing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2014

Uri Hasson ,
Daniel A. Llano ,
Gabriele Miceli  and
Anthony Steven Dick
Uri Hasson
Affiliation:
Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC) and Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Mattarello (TN), Italy. uri.hasson@unitn.it gabriele.miceli@unitn.it http://www.hasson.org http://www.unitn.it/en/cimec/11706/gabriele-miceli
Daniel A. Llano
Affiliation:
School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801. d-llano@illinois.edu http://mcb.illinois.edu/faculty/profile/d-llano/
Gabriele Miceli
Affiliation:
Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC) and Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Mattarello (TN), Italy. uri.hasson@unitn.it gabriele.miceli@unitn.it http://www.hasson.org http://www.unitn.it/en/cimec/11706/gabriele-miceli
Anthony Steven Dick
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199. adick@fiu.edu http://faculty.fiu.edu/~adick
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Abstract

Ackermann et al.'s phylogenetic account of speech argues that the basal ganglia imbue speech with emotive content. However, a body of work on auditory/emotive processing is inconsistent with attributing this function exclusively to these structures. The account further overlooks the possibility that the emotion-integration function may be at least in part mediated by the cortico-ponto-cerebellar system.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 37 , Issue 6 , December 2014 , pp. 556 - 557
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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