Social Neuroscience

Lec. #5 Left Brain / Right Brain cont’d

1. Recognition of emotional expression

A. faces

B. voice – dichotic listening

2. Production of emotion

A. right hemisphere theory

B. valence theory

3. Right hemisphere involvement in language

A. prosody

B. pragmatics

C. metaphor

D. alternative word meanings

E. jokes

4. Theory of mind

5. Emotional intelligence

A. alexithymia

B. studies of normals with chimeric faces