Left-hemisphere processing of emotional connotation during word generation

Bruce Crosson; Krestin Radonovich; Joseph R. Sadek; Didem Gökçay; Russell M. Bauer; Ira S. Fischler; Margaret A. Cato; Leeza Maron; Edward J. Auerbach; Samuel R. Browd; Richard W. Briggs

doi:10.1097/00001756-199908200-00003

Left-hemisphere processing of emotional connotation during word generation

Bruce Crosson, Krestin Radonovich, Joseph R. Sadek, Didem Gökçay, Russell M. Bauer, Ira S. Fischler, Margaret A. Cato, Leeza Maron, Edward J. Auerbach, Samuel R. Browd, Richard W. Briggs

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Areas of the brain's left hemisphere involved in retrieving words with emotional connotations were studied with fMRI. Participants silently generated words from different semantic categories which evoked either words with emotional connotations or emotionally neutral words. Participants repeated emotionally neutral words as a control task. Compared with generation of emotionally neutral words, generation of words with emotional connotations engaged cortices near the left frontal and temporal poles which are connected to the limbic system. Thus, emotional connotations of words are processed in or near cortices with access to emotional experience.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	2449-2455
Number of pages	7
Journal	NeuroReport
Volume	10
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1097/00001756-199908200-00003
State	Published - Aug 20 1999
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Emotion
Frontal pole
Language
Limbic system
Semantics
Temporal pole
Word generation
fMRI

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General Neuroscience

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