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Investigating audiovisual integration of emotional signals in the human brainThomas Ethofer
Section of Experimental MR of the CNS, Department of Neuroradiology, Otfried Müller Str 51, University of Tubingen, 72076 Tubingen, Germany
Prog Brain Res 156:345-61. 2006..Assets and drawbacks of the different analysis types are discussed and demonstrated on the basis of one fMRI data set...
Functional responses and structural connections of cortical areas for processing faces and voices in the superior temporal sulcusThomas Ethofer
Department of General Psychiatry, University of Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany Department of Biomedical Resonance, University of Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany Electronic address
Neuroimage 76:45-56. 2013....- Emotional voice areas: anatomic location, functional properties, and structural connections revealed by combined fMRI/DTIThomas Ethofer
Department of General Psychiatry, University of Tubingen, 72076 Tubingen, Germany
Cereb Cortex 22:191-200. 2012.... - Processing social aspects of human gaze: a combined fMRI-DTI studyThomas Ethofer
Laboratory for Behavioral Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Department of Neuroscience and Clinic of Neurology, Medical School, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Neuroimage 55:411-9. 2011.... - Decoding of emotional information in voice-sensitive corticesThomas Ethofer
Laboratory for Behavioral Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Department of Neuroscience and Clinic of Neurology, Medical School, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Curr Biol 19:1028-33. 2009..These results demonstrate for the first time that emotional information is represented by distinct spatial patterns that can be decoded from brain activity in modality-specific cortical areas... - Effects of prosodic emotional intensity on activation of associative auditory cortexThomas Ethofer
Section of Experimental MR of the CNS, Department of Neuroradiology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
Neuroreport 17:249-53. 2006.... - Cerebral pathways in processing of affective prosody: a dynamic causal modeling studyThomas Ethofer
Section of Experimental MR of the CNS, Department of Neuroradiology, Otfried Mueller Strasse 51, University of Tuebingen, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany
Neuroimage 30:580-7. 2006.... - Impact of voice on emotional judgment of faces: an event-related fMRI studyThomas Ethofer
Section of Experimental MR of the CNS, Department of Neuroradiology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
Hum Brain Mapp 27:707-14. 2006..Presumably, these increased extrastriate activations correspond to enhanced alertness, whereas responses within the left amygdala modulate cognitive evaluation of emotional facial expressions... - Differential influences of emotion, task, and novelty on brain regions underlying the processing of speech melodyThomas Ethofer
University of Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany
J Cogn Neurosci 21:1255-68. 2009..Taken together, our study reveals that different aspects of voice stimuli and perceptual demands modulate distinct areas involved in the processing of emotional prosody... - Association of trait emotional intelligence and individual fMRI-activation patterns during the perception of social signals from voice and faceBenjamin Kreifelts
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
Hum Brain Mapp 31:979-91. 2010..This functional difference in the network for the audiovisual perception of human social signals indicates a specific contribution of the pSTS as a possible interface between the perception of social information and social cognition... - Cerebral processing of emotional prosody--influence of acoustic parameters and arousalSarah Wiethoff
Department of Psychiatry, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
Neuroimage 39:885-93. 2008..In conclusion, our results demonstrate that right mid STG is sensitive to various emotions conveyed by prosody, an effect which is driven by a combination of acoustic features that express the emotional arousal in the speaker's voice... - Cerebral representation of non-verbal emotional perception: fMRI reveals audiovisual integration area between voice- and face-sensitive regions in the superior temporal sulcusBenjamin Kreifelts
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Tuebingen, Osianderstrasse 24, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany
Neuropsychologia 47:3059-66. 2009.... - Audiovisual integration of emotional signals in voice and face: an event-related fMRI studyBenjamin Kreifelts
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Tuebingen, Osianderstrasse 24, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany
Neuroimage 37:1445-56. 2007..Finally, we were able to document an enhanced sensitivity of the putative integration sites to stimuli with emotional non-verbal content as compared to neutral stimuli... - Impact of task difficulty on lateralization of pitch and duration discriminationSusanne M Reiterer
Department of General Neurology, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tubingen, Hoppe Seyler Str Tübingen, Germany
Neuroreport 16:239-42. 2005..In conclusion, we found evidence for preferential involvement of the right hemisphere in holistic feature processing within the auditory domain... - Response and habituation of the amygdala during processing of emotional prosodySarah Wiethoff
Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Department of Neuroradiology, University of Tuebingen, Germany
Neuroreport 20:1356-60. 2009..Our results converge with earlier neuroimaging evidence investigating emotional vocalizations, and these neurobiological similarities suggest that the two forms of communication might have common evolutionary roots... - Changes in cortical activation during retrieval of clock time representations in patients with mild cognitive impairment and early Alzheimer's diseaseThomas Leyhe
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany
Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 27:117-32. 2009.... 
Mapping aesthetic musical emotions in the brainWiebke Trost
Laboratory of Behavioral Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Department of Neuroscience, Medical School, University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
Cereb Cortex 22:2769-83. 2012..These data reveal a differentiated recruitment across emotions of networks involved in reward, memory, self-reflective, and sensorimotor processes, which may account for the unique richness of musical emotions...- The voices of seduction: cross-gender effects in processing of erotic prosodyThomas Ethofer
Department of General Psychiatry, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 2:334-7. 2007..The observed response pattern, thus, indicates a particular sensitivity to emotional voices that have a high behavioural relevance for the listener... - Different Types of Laughter Modulate Connectivity within Distinct Parts of the Laughter Perception NetworkDirk Wildgruber
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany Department for Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany
PLoS ONE 8:e63441. 2013.... - Guilt-specific processing in the prefrontal cortexUllrich Wagner
Department of Neuroscience, University Medical School, University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
Cereb Cortex 21:2461-70. 2011..These results provide new insights on the unique nature of guilt as a "self-conscious" moral emotion and the neural bases of antisocial disorders characterized by impaired guilt processing... - Thyroid peroxidase antibody positivity is associated with symptomatic distress in patients with Hashimoto's thyroiditisKarsten Müssig
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Angiology, Nephrology and Clinical Chemistry, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Tubingen, Otfried Muller Str 10, 72076 Tubingen, Germany
Brain Behav Immun 26:559-63. 2012..02). In conclusion, high TPO-Abs are associated with poor physical and psychological well-being and appear to predict future health perception in HT patients... - Comparison of longitudinal metabolite relaxation times in different regions of the human brain at 1.5 and 3 TeslaThomas Ethofer
Section of Experimental MR of the CNS, Department of Neuroradiology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
Magn Reson Med 50:1296-301. 2003..No influence of tissue composition on metabolite T(1) values was found, while the longitudinal relaxation times of water protons were strongly correlated with the relative GM content...