Test-Retest Reliability of Mismatch Negativity (MMN) to Emotional Voices.

ABSTRACT: A voice from kin species conveys indispensable social and affective signals with uniquely phylogenetic and ontogenetic standpoints. However, the neural underpinning of emotional voices, beyond low-level acoustic features, activates a processing chain that proceeds from the auditory pathway to the brain structures implicated in cognition and emotion. By using a passive auditory oddball paradigm, which employs emotional voices, this study investigates the test-retest reliability of emotional mismatch negativity (MMN), indicating that the deviants of positively (happily)- and negatively (angrily)-spoken syllables, as compared to neutral standards, can trigger MMN as a response to an automatic discrimination of emotional salience. The neurophysiological estimates of MMN to positive and negativ

SUBMITTER: Chen C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6249375 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature