Cerebral response to emotional working memory based on vocal cues: an fNIRS study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Humans mainly utilize visual and auditory information as a cue to infer others' emotions. Previous neuroimaging studies have shown the neural basis of memory processing based on facial expression, but few studies have examined it based on vocal cues. Thus, we aimed to investigate brain regions associated with emotional judgment based on vocal cues using an N-back task paradigm.

Methods

Thirty participants performed N-back tasks requiring them to judge emotion or gender from voices that contained both emotion and gender information. During these tasks, cerebral hemodynamic response was measured using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS).

Results

The results revealed that during the Emotion 2-back task there was significant activation in the fronta

SUBMITTER: Ohshima S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10785654 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature