Common premotor regions for the perception and production of prosody and correlations with empathy and prosodic ability.

Prosody, the melody and intonation of speech, involves the rhythm, rate, pitch and voice quality to relay linguistic and emotional information from one individual to another. A significant component of human social communication depends upon interpreting and responding to another person's proso...

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Main Authors: Lisa Aziz-Zadeh, Tong Sheng, Anahita Gheytanchi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2808341?pdf=render