Gender Differences in Processing Emotional Prosody

Social interaction requires appropriate understanding and processing of emotional communicative facets. This allows to infere which emotional state a person is in as well as to predict their actions and to adapt ones own behaviour. In speech there are two channels for encoding emotions: 1) semantics – that is the emotional meaning of words and sentences, and 2) prosody – that is the emotional melody of speech. To date, the neural basis of emotional prosodic and semantic information processing is not completely understood. However, we know that the inferior frontal (IFG) and the superior and middle temporal gyri…