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Contributions of emotional prosody comprehension deficits to the formation of auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia (2012)
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Alba-Ferrara, L., Fernyhough, C., Weis, S., Mitchell, R., & Hausmann, M. (2012). Contributions of emotional prosody comprehension deficits to the formation of auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia. Clinical Psychology Review, 32(4), 244-250. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2012.02.003

Deficits in emotional processing have been widely described in schizophrenia. Associations of positive symptoms with poor emotional prosody comprehension (EPC) have been reported at the phenomenological, behavioral, and neural levels. This review foc... Read More about Contributions of emotional prosody comprehension deficits to the formation of auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia.

The neural correlates of emotional prosody comprehension: Disentangling simple from complex emotion (2011)
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Alba-Ferrara, L., Hausmann, M., Mitchel, R., & Weis, S. (2011). The neural correlates of emotional prosody comprehension: Disentangling simple from complex emotion. PLoS ONE, 6(12), Article e28701. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0028701

Background Emotional prosody comprehension (EPC), the ability to interpret another person's feelings by listening to their tone of voice, is crucial for effective social communication. Previous studies assessing the neural correlates of EPC have foun... Read More about The neural correlates of emotional prosody comprehension: Disentangling simple from complex emotion.

The Specificity of Age-Related Decline in Interpretation of Emotion Cues From Prosody (2011)
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Mitchell, R., Kingston, R., & Boucas, S. (2011). The Specificity of Age-Related Decline in Interpretation of Emotion Cues From Prosody. Psychology and Aging, 26(2), 406-414. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0021861

Older adults are not as good as younger adults at decoding prosodic emotions. We sought to determine the specificity of this finding. Performance of older and younger adults was compared on a prosodic emotion task, a “pure” prosodic emotion task, a l... Read More about The Specificity of Age-Related Decline in Interpretation of Emotion Cues From Prosody.

Linear increases in BOLD response associated with increasing proportion of incongruent trials across time in a colour Stroop task (2010)
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Mitchell, R. (2010). Linear increases in BOLD response associated with increasing proportion of incongruent trials across time in a colour Stroop task. Experimental Brain Research, 203(1), 193-204. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-010-2225-3

Selective attention is popularly assessed with colour Stroop tasks in which participants name the ink colour of colour words, whilst resisting interference from the natural tendency to read the words. Prior studies hinted that the key brain regions (... Read More about Linear increases in BOLD response associated with increasing proportion of incongruent trials across time in a colour Stroop task.

Decoding Emotional Prosody in Parkinson’s Disease and its Potential Neuropsychological Basis (2009)
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Mitchell, R., & Barbosa Bouças, S. (2009). Decoding Emotional Prosody in Parkinson’s Disease and its Potential Neuropsychological Basis. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 31(5), 553-564. https://doi.org/10.1080/13803390802360534

Parkinson’s disease patients may have difficulty decoding prosodic emotion cues. These data suggest the basal ganglia are involved, but may reflect dorsolateral prefrontal cortex dysfunction. An auditory emotional N-back task and cognitive N-back tas... Read More about Decoding Emotional Prosody in Parkinson’s Disease and its Potential Neuropsychological Basis.

fMRI Evidence for the Effect of Verbal Complexity on Lateralisation of the Neural Response Associated with Decoding Prosodic Emotion (2008)
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Mitchell, R., & Ross, E. (2008). fMRI Evidence for the Effect of Verbal Complexity on Lateralisation of the Neural Response Associated with Decoding Prosodic Emotion. Neuropsychologia, 46(12), 2880-2887. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.05.024

The pattern of intonation accompanying an utterance provides a powerful cue as to a speaker’s emotional state of mind. Most prior lesion studies have demonstrated that the nodal point for decoding these prosodic emotion cues is mediated by unimodal a... Read More about fMRI Evidence for the Effect of Verbal Complexity on Lateralisation of the Neural Response Associated with Decoding Prosodic Emotion.

Age-related decline in the ability to decode emotional prosody: Primary or secondary phenomenon? (2007)
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Mitchell, R. (2007). Age-related decline in the ability to decode emotional prosody: Primary or secondary phenomenon?. Cognition and Emotion, 21(7), 1435-1454. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699930601133994

Emotion processing deficits can cause catastrophic damage to a person's ability to interact socially. While it is known that older adults have difficulty identifying facial emotions, it is still not clear whether this difficulty extends to identifica... Read More about Age-related decline in the ability to decode emotional prosody: Primary or secondary phenomenon?.

fMRI delineation of working memory for emotional prosody in the brain: Commonalities with the lexico-semantic emotion network (2007)
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Mitchell, R. (2007). fMRI delineation of working memory for emotional prosody in the brain: Commonalities with the lexico-semantic emotion network. NeuroImage, 36(3), 1015-1025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.03.016

Decoding emotional prosody is crucial for successful social interactions, and continuous monitoring of emotional intent via prosody requires working memory. It has been proposed by Ross and others that emotional prosody cognitions in the right hemisp... Read More about fMRI delineation of working memory for emotional prosody in the brain: Commonalities with the lexico-semantic emotion network.