PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Heilman, Kenneth M.
AU  - Bowers, Dawn
AU  - Speedie, Lynn
AU  - Coslett, H. Branch
TI  - Comprehension of affective and nonaffective prosody
AID  - 10.1212/WNL.34.7.917
DP  - 1984 Jul 01
TA  - Neurology
PG  - 917--917
VI  - 34
IP  - 7
4099  - http://n.neurology.org/content/34/7/917.short
4100  - http://n.neurology.org/content/34/7/917.full
SO  - Neurology1984 Jul 01; 34
AB  - We studied patients with damage of either the right (RHD) or left hemisphere (LHD) and control subjects to determine whether the RHD patients had a global or limited prosodic defect. Compared with LHD patients and controls, RHD subjects had decreased comprehension of emotional prosody. Both LHD and RHD groups had more impaired comprehension of propositional prosody than controls, but the RHD and LHD groups did not differ. The right hemisphere, therefore, seems to be dominant for comprehending emotional prosody but not propositional prosody.