The Voice of Anger: Oscillatory EEG Responses to Emotional Prosody.

ABSTRACT: Emotionally relevant stimuli and in particular anger are, due to their evolutionary relevance, often processed automatically and able to modulate attention independent of conscious access. Here, we tested whether attention allocation is enhanced when auditory stimuli are uttered by an angry voice. We recorded EEG and presented healthy individuals with a passive condition where unfamiliar names as well as the subject's own name were spoken both with an angry and neutral prosody. The active condition instead, required participants to actively count one of the presented (angry) names. Results revealed that in the passive condition the angry prosody only elicited slightly stronger delta synchronization as compared to a neutral voice. In the active condition the attended (angry) target was rela

SUBMITTER: Del Giudice R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4956258 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature