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A distinct set of brain areas process prosody--the melody of speech

2025-12-14

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Human speech carries information beyond the words themselves: pitch, loudness, duration, and pauses--jointly referred to as 'prosody'--emphasize critical words, help group words into phrases, and convey emotional and other socially-relevant information. Using a novel fMRI paradigm, we identify a set of prosody-responsive brain areas and then richly characterize them across 8 experiments (25 experimental conditions...

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Literature Corpus work: 2c590b87-099c-5141-b2b5-9c667f70b30a
DOI: 10.64898/2025.12.12.693781

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