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NeuroImage 28 (2005) 848 – 858
Emotion and attention interactions in social cognition: Brain regions
involved in processing anger prosody
David Sander,a,*,1 Didier Grandjean,a,1 Gilles Pourtois,b Sophie Schwartz,b
Mohamed L. Seghier,b,c Klaus R. Scherer,a and Patrik Vuilleumierb,d
aGeneva Emotion Research Group, Department of Psychology, University of Geneva, 40 bd. du Pont d’Arve, CH-1205 Geneva, Switzerland
bNeurology and Imaging of Cognition, Department of Neurosciences and Clinic of Neurology, University of Geneva, Switzerland
cDepartment of Radiology, Geneva University Hospital, University of Geneva, Switzerland
dDepartment of Psychology, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Received 1 December 2004; revised 3 June 2005; accepted 10 June 2005
Available online 1 August 2005
Multiple levels of processing are thought to be involved in the appraisal Introduction
of emotionally relevant events, with some processes being engaged
relatively independently of attention, whereas other processes may Efficient processing of emotional cues, such as facial and vocal
depend on attention and current task goals or context. We conducted expressions, is critical during social interactions (see Russell et al.,
an event-related fMRI experiment to examine how processing angry 2003; Scherer, 1986, 2003). However, despite a growing interest in
voice prosody, an affectively and socially salient signal, is modulated by
this issue in cognitive neuroscience, the neural mechanisms
voluntary attention. To manipulate attention orthogonally to emotional
prosody, we used a dichotic listening paradigm in which meaningless involved in emotional decoding and their interaction with other
utterances, pronounced with either angry or neutral prosody, were cognitive processes remain poorly defined (see Goldman and
presented simultaneously to both ears on each trial. In two essive Sekhar Sripada, 2005). Moreover, neuroscience research has often
blocks, participants selec