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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.

Does incongruence of lexicosemantic and prosodic information cause discernible cognitive conflict? (2006)
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Mitchell, R. (2006). Does incongruence of lexicosemantic and prosodic information cause discernible cognitive conflict?. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 6(4), 298-305. https://doi.org/10.3758/cabn.6.4.298

We are often required to interpret discordant emotional signals. Whereas equivalent cognitive paradigms cause noticeable conflict via their behavioral and psychophysiological effects, the same may not necessarily be true for discordant emotions. Skin... Read More about Does incongruence of lexicosemantic and prosodic information cause discernible cognitive conflict?.

Anterior cingulate activity and level of cognitive conflict: Explicit comparisons (2006)
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Mitchell, R. (2006). Anterior cingulate activity and level of cognitive conflict: Explicit comparisons. Behavioral Neuroscience, 120(6), 1395-1401. https://doi.org/10.1037/0735-7044.120.6.1395

The role of anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) in attention is a matter of debate. One hypothesis suggests that its role is to monitor response-level conflict, but explicit evidence is somewhat lacking. In this study, the activation of ACC was compared... Read More about Anterior cingulate activity and level of cognitive conflict: Explicit comparisons.

The BOLD response during Stroop task-like inhibition paradigms: Effects of task difficulty and task-relevant modality (2005)
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Mitchell, R. (2005). The BOLD response during Stroop task-like inhibition paradigms: Effects of task difficulty and task-relevant modality. Brain and Cognition, 59(1), 23-37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2005.04.001

Previous studies of the Stroop task propose two key mediators: the prefrontal and cingulate cortices but hints exist of functional specialization within these regions. This study aimed to examine the effect of task modality upon the prefrontal and ci... Read More about The BOLD response during Stroop task-like inhibition paradigms: Effects of task difficulty and task-relevant modality.

Right hemisphere language functions and schizophrenia: the forgotten hemisphere? (2005)
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Mitchell, R., & Crow, T. (2005). Right hemisphere language functions and schizophrenia: the forgotten hemisphere?. Brain, 128(5), 963-978. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awh466

This review highlights the importance of right hemisphere language functions for successful social communication and advances the hypothesis that the core deficit in psychosis is a failure of segregation of right from left hemisphere functions. Lesio... Read More about Right hemisphere language functions and schizophrenia: the forgotten hemisphere?.

Neural response to emotional prosody in schizophrenia and in bipolar affective disorder (2004)
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Mitchell, R., Elliott, R., Barry, M., Cruttenden, A., & Woodruff, P. (2004). Neural response to emotional prosody in schizophrenia and in bipolar affective disorder. British Journal of Psychiatry, 184(3), 223-230. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.184.3.223

BACKGROUND: Evidence suggests a reversal of the normal left-lateralised response to speech in schizophrenia. AIMS: To test the brain's response to emotional prosody in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. METHOD: BOLD contrast functional magnetic reso... Read More about Neural response to emotional prosody in schizophrenia and in bipolar affective disorder.

The neural response to emotional prosody, as revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging (2003)
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Mitchell, R., Elliott, R., Barry, M., Cruttenden, A., & Woodruff, P. (2003). The neural response to emotional prosody, as revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging. Neuropsychologia, 41(10), 1410-1421. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0028-3932%2803%2900017-4

Prosody is an important feature of language, comprising intonation, loudness, and tempo. Emotional prosodic processing forms an integral part of our social interactions. The main aim of this study was to use bold contrast fMRI to clarify the normal f... Read More about The neural response to emotional prosody, as revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging.

fMRI and cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia (2001)
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Mitchell, R., Elliott, R., & Woodruff, P. (2001). fMRI and cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 5(2), 71-80. https://doi.org/10.1016/s1364-6613%2800%2901599-0

Despite being one of the most prevalent psychiatric conditions, SCHIZOPHRENIA is still poorly understood, with no clear objective biological marker. The advent of neuroimaging has enabled in vivo investigations to complement older techniques, and has... Read More about fMRI and cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia.