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Infants' electric brain responses to emotional prosody

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Grossmann,  Tobias
Department Neuropsychology, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Max Planck Society;
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Striano,  Tricia
Department Neuropsychology, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Max Planck Society;
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Friederici,  Angela D.
Department Neuropsychology, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Max Planck Society;

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Grossmann, T., Striano, T., & Friederici, A. D. (2005). Infants' electric brain responses to emotional prosody. NeuroReport, 16(16), 1825-1828. doi:10.1097/01.wnr.0000185964.34336.b1.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0010-BCCB-6
Abstract
In the current study, we examined 7-month-oldinfants’processing
of emotional prosody using event-related brain potentials. Infants
heard semantically neutral words that were spoken with either a
happy, angry, or neutral voice. The event-related brain potential
datarevealedthat angryprosodyeliciteda morenegativeresponse
in infants’ event-related potentials than did happy or neutral pro-
sody, suggesting greater allocation of attention to angry prosody.
A positive slow wave was elicited by angry and happy prosody over
temporalelectrode sites.Thisindicates anenhancedsensoryproces-
sing of the emotionally loaded stimuli (happy and angry).The current
¢ndings demonstrate that very early in development, the human
brain detects emotionally loaded words and shows di¡erential
attentional responses depending on their emotional valence