<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="color:black">Title:
</span></b><span style="color:black">The Synchronized Brain in Emotional Processing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="color:black">Speaker:
</span></b><span style="color:black">Didier Grandjean, Ph.D., University of Geneva, Switzerland
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="color:black">Date</span></b><span style="color:black">: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="color:black">Time</span></b><span style="color:black">: 11:00 am to 12:30 pm<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="color:black">Cost</span></b><span style="color:black">: FREE and open to the public<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="color:black">Location</span></b><span style="color:black">: Health and Biomedical Sciences Building, Room 267 (SBHB-267) Main Campus, University of Houston<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="color:black">Contact and Phone Number</span></b><span style="color:black">: Ioannis Pavlidis, Ph.D., 713-743-0101<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="color:black">Link:
</span></b><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.cs.uh.edu/news-events/seminars/2014/1112-grandjean.php">http://www.cs.uh.edu/news-events/seminars/2014/1112-grandjean.php</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph"><b><span style="color:black">Summary</span></b><span style="color:black">: </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Emotion recognition in face, body, gesture, and voice is a crucial ability for survival and in social contexts.
The brain regions subserving the processing of emotional prosody have been investigated using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG) but few studies investigated direct electrical neuronal activity using intracranial
recordings in humans. Previous studies have shown the involvement of the amygdala and the orbito-frontal cortex in the processing of emotional prosody. Using local field potentials (LFPs) recordings in humans, Professor Grandjean investigated whether anatomical
connections between these two brain regions underlie the functional integration of attended and unattended processing of emotional voices. His results showed that the processing of unattended emotional prosody compared to attended emotional prosody triggered
an onset-locked enhanced functional coupling between amygdala and medial orbito-frontal regions mainly in the beta frequencies band. In contrast, the data revealed a significant early increase in phase-locking synchronization between these two regions in the
theta and alpha frequency range for attended angry prosody compared to both unattended angry and neutral prosodies. These results highlight the functional selectivity of different frequency bands within the amygdala and medial orbito-frontal network in response
to attended or unattended emotional stimuli.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></span><style><!--
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