TY - JOUR
T1 - Emotional processing deficits in individuals with unilateral brain damage
AU - Borod, Joan C.
AU - Bloom, Ronald L.
AU - Brickman, Adam M.
AU - Nakhutina, Luba
AU - Curko, Elizabeth A.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by NIMH Grant no. R01-MH42172. Requests for reprints should be sent to Joan C. Borod, Department of Psychology, Queens College, NSB-E318, 65-30 Kissena Boulevard, Flushing, NY 11367, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - This article presents a review of the neural mechanisms underlying emotional processing deficits (EPDs) in individuals with unilateral brain damage. First, key theoretical issues pertaining to the neuropsychology of emotion are presented. These include parameters of emotional processing, the componential approach, emotional domains, and hypotheses regarding hemispheric specialization for emotion. Second, the literature on hemispheric asymmetries for emotion is reviewed in terms of processing mode (perception and expression) and communication channel (facial, prosodic-intonational, and lexical-verbal). Studies involving normal adults and individuals with right- or left-sided brain damage are reviewed. Third, recent findings identifying the role of the right hemisphere in emotional processing are described. The article is concluded by aligning these new data with findings from the general literature, providing added support for the right-hemisphere emotion hypothesis.
AB - This article presents a review of the neural mechanisms underlying emotional processing deficits (EPDs) in individuals with unilateral brain damage. First, key theoretical issues pertaining to the neuropsychology of emotion are presented. These include parameters of emotional processing, the componential approach, emotional domains, and hypotheses regarding hemispheric specialization for emotion. Second, the literature on hemispheric asymmetries for emotion is reviewed in terms of processing mode (perception and expression) and communication channel (facial, prosodic-intonational, and lexical-verbal). Studies involving normal adults and individuals with right- or left-sided brain damage are reviewed. Third, recent findings identifying the role of the right hemisphere in emotional processing are described. The article is concluded by aligning these new data with findings from the general literature, providing added support for the right-hemisphere emotion hypothesis.
KW - Emotional expression
KW - Emotional perception
KW - Facial communication
KW - Hemisphere dominance
KW - Lexical-verbal communication
KW - Prosodic communication
KW - Unilateral brain damage
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/0035996134
U2 - 10.1207/S15324826AN0901_4
DO - 10.1207/S15324826AN0901_4
M3 - Article
C2 - 12173747
AN - SCOPUS:0035996134
SN - 0908-4282
VL - 9
SP - 23
EP - 36
JO - Applied Neuropsychology
JF - Applied Neuropsychology
IS - 1
ER -