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SUBMITTER: Aryani A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6025608 | biostudies-other | 2018 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Brain sciences 20180523 6
The long history of poetry and the arts, as well as recent empirical results suggest that the way a word sounds (e.g., soft vs. harsh) can convey affective information related to emotional responses (e.g., pleasantness vs. harshness). However, the neural correlates of the affective potential of the sound of words remain unknown. In an fMRI study involving passive listening, we focused on the affective dimension of arousal and presented words organized in two discrete groups of sublexical (i.e., ...[more]