Semiotic aspects of human nonverbal vocalizations: a functional imaging study. Export

@article{citeulike:2431226, abstract = {Humans produce a variety of distinct nonverbal vocalizations. Whereas affective bursts, for example, laughter, have an intrinsic communicative role bound to social behavior, vegetative sounds, for example, snoring, just signal autonomic-physiological states. However, the latter events, for example, belching, may also be used as intentional communicative actions (vocal gestures), characterized by an arbitrary culture-dependent sound-to-meaning (semiotic) relationship, comparable to verbal utterances. Using a decision task, hemodynamic responses to affective bursts, vegetative sounds, and vocal gestures were measured by means of functional magnetic resonance imaging. Affective bursts elicited activation of anterior left superior temporal gyrus. In contrast, arbitrary vocal gestures yielded hemodynamic reactions of the left temporo-parietal junction. Conceivably, a listener's interpretation of nonverbal utterances as intentional events depends upon a left-hemisphere temporo-parietal 'auditory-to-meaning interface' related to our mechanisms of speech processing.}, address = {Department of General Neurology, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of T\"{u}bingen, T\"{u}bingen, Germany. susanne.dietrich@med.uni-tuebingen.de}, author = {Dietrich, S. and Hertrich, I. and Alter, K. and Ischebeck, A. and Ackermann, H.}, citeulike-article-id = {2431226}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/WNR.0b013e3282f290df}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18007181}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=18007181}, day = {3}, doi = {10.1097/WNR.0b013e3282f290df}, issn = {0959-4965}, journal = {Neuroreport}, keywords = {auditory, fmri, jc-neuroreport, meaning}, month = {December}, number = {18}, pages = {1891--1894}, posted-at = {2008-02-26 20:08:57}, priority = {5}, title = {Semiotic aspects of human nonverbal vocalizations: a functional imaging study.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/WNR.0b013e3282f290df}, volume = {18}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2431226 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2431226 N2 - Humans produce a variety of distinct nonverbal vocalizations. Whereas affective bursts, for example, laughter, have an intrinsic communicative role bound to social behavior, vegetative sounds, for example, snoring, just signal autonomic-physiological states. However, the latter events, for example, belching, may also be used as intentional communicative actions (vocal gestures), characterized by an arbitrary culture-dependent sound-to-meaning (semiotic) relationship, comparable to verbal utterances. Using a decision task, hemodynamic responses to affective bursts, vegetative sounds, and vocal gestures were measured by means of functional magnetic resonance imaging. Affective bursts elicited activation of anterior left superior temporal gyrus. In contrast, arbitrary vocal gestures yielded hemodynamic reactions of the left temporo-parietal junction. Conceivably, a listener's interpretation of nonverbal utterances as intentional events depends upon a left-hemisphere temporo-parietal 'auditory-to-meaning interface' related to our mechanisms of speech processing. IS - 18 JF - Neuroreport SN - 0959-4965 AD - Department of General Neurology, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany. susanne.dietrich@med.uni-tuebingen.de EP - 1894 TI - Semiotic aspects of human nonverbal vocalizations: a functional imaging study. VL - 18 SP - 1891 KW - auditory KW - fmri KW - jc-neuroreport KW - meaning AU - Dietrich, S AU - Hertrich, I AU - Alter, K AU - Ischebeck, A AU - Ackermann, H PY - 2007/12/03/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/WNR.0b013e3282f290df ER -