RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Comprehension of affective and nonaffective prosody
JF Neurology
JO Neurology
FD Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
SP 917
OP 917
DO 10.1212/WNL.34.7.917
VO 34
IS 7
A1 Heilman, Kenneth M.
A1 Bowers, Dawn
A1 Speedie, Lynn
A1 Coslett, H. Branch
YR 1984
UL http://n.neurology.org/content/34/7/917.abstract
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.