Reference code: | PT/FB/BL-2014-304.16 |
Location: | BF-GMS
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Title:
| Resting-state functional connectivity within the dorsal pathway predicts auditory emotion recognition in children
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Publication year: | 2018
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URL:
| https://ijup.up.pt/2019/wp-content/uploads/sites/269/2018/10/LivroResumos2018.pdf
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Abstract/Results: | ABSTRACT:
Understanding others´ emotional states from variations in the `tone of voice´ - emotional prosody - is crucial for personal and social adjustment. Recognizing emotions in prosody relies on an interplay between several brain regions along the ventral and dorsal auditory pathways (Sammler et al., 2015). While the role of temporal and inferior frontal cortices in vocal emotional recognition is well established (e.g., Fruehholz & Grandjean, 2013), an emerging body of work also suggests a potential involvement of the motor system (e.g., Lima et al., 2015; Sammler et al., 2015). The aim of our study was to examine if the motor system plays a role in emotional prosody processing. Specifically, we examined if functional connectivity between the motor system and well-established brain regions implicated in vocal emotional processing indexes behavioural differences in emotion recognition performance. Fifty-five children (aged 8.31 ± 0.32 years; 23 male) completed a resting-state fMRI protocol, and an offline behavioural emotional recognition task including four emotions (happiness, sadness, anger, fear) plus neutrality. Resting-state data were analysed using a hypothesis-driven seed-based correlation approach: the auditory cortex, superior temporal cortex (STC) and inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) were considered as seeds, and the motor cortex as target. We found that a stronger connectivity between IFG and motor regions predicts a better ability to recognise prosodic emotions. Furthermore, follow-up analyses within IFG subregions indicate that this result is mostly driven by the IFG triangularis (BA45). Taken together, these findings suggest that the motor system plays a role in predicting vocal emotional recognition abilities in children, adding to the emerging evidence on the role of the dorsal pathway regions in prosodic processing. At a broader level, this study contributes to delineating the neural mechanisms supporting vocal emotional processing during development.
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Language: | eng
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Author:
| Correia, A. I.
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Secondary author(s):
| Branco, P., Martins, M., Reis, A. M., Martins, N., Castro, S. L., Lima, C.
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Document type:
| Abstract book
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Number of reproductions:
| 1
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Reference:
| Correia, A. I., Branco, P., Martins, M., Reis, A. M., Martins, N., Castro, S. L., & Lima, C. (2018). Resting-state functional connectivity within the dorsal pathway predicts auditory emotion recognition in children. Book of Abstract of the 11th Meeting of Young Researchers of the University of Porto, 14095, 188.
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Indexed document: | No
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Keywords: | Emotion recognition / Individual differences / Resting-state functional connectivity / Sensorimotor system
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Resting-state functional connectivity within the dorsal pathway predicts auditory emotion recognition in children |