Hemispheric specialization in affective responses, cerebral dominance for language, and handedness: Lateralization of emotion, language, and dexterity

Autores
Costanzo, Elsa Yolanda; Villarreal, Mirta Fabiana; Drucaroff, Lucas Javier; Ortiz Villafañe, Manuel; Castro, Mariana Nair; Goldschmidt, Micaela Giuliana; Wainsztein, Agustina Edith; Ladrón de Guevara, Maria Soledad; Romero, Carlos; Brusco, Luis Ignacio; Camprodon, Joan A.; Nemeroff, Charles; Guinjoan, Salvador Martín
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2015
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Hemispheric specialization in affective responses has received little attention in the literature. This is a fundamental variable to understand circuit dynamics of networks subserving emotion. In this study we put to test a modified "valence" hypothesis of emotion processing, considering that sadness and happiness are processed by each hemisphere in relation to dominance for language and handedness. Mood induction and language activation during functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) were used in 20 right-handed and 20 nonright-handed subjects, focusing on interconnected regions known to play critical roles in affective responses: subgenual cingulate cortex, amygdala, and anterior insular cortex. We observed a consistent relationship between lateralization of affective processing, motor dexterity, and language in individuals with clear right-handedness. Sadness induces a greater activation of right-hemisphere cortical structures in right-handed, left-dominant individuals, which is not evident in nonright-handed subjects who show no consistent hemispheric dominance for language. In anterior insula, right-handed individuals displayed reciprocal activation of either hemisphere depending upon mood valence, whereas amygdala activation was predominantly left-sided regardless of mood valence. Nonright-handed individuals exhibited less consistent brain lateralization of affective processing regardless of language and motor dexterity lateralization. In contrast with traditional views on emotion processing lateralization, hemispheric specialization in affective responses is not a unitary process but is specific to the brain structure being activated.
Fil: Costanzo, Elsa Yolanda. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Medicina. Departamento de Salud Mental; Argentina. Fundación para la Lucha contra las Enfermedades Neurológicas de la Infancia; Argentina
Fil: Villarreal, Mirta Fabiana. Fundación para la Lucha contra las Enfermedades Neurológicas de la Infancia; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires; Argentina
Fil: Drucaroff, Lucas Javier. Fundación para la Lucha contra las Enfermedades Neurológicas de la Infancia; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Medicina. Departamento de Salud Mental; Argentina
Fil: Ortiz Villafañe, Manuel. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Medicina. Departamento de Salud Mental; Argentina. Fundación para la Lucha contra las Enfermedades Neurológicas de la Infancia; Argentina
Fil: Castro, Mariana Nair. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Medicina. Departamento de Ciencias Fisiológicas; Argentina. Fundación para la Lucha contra las Enfermedades Neurológicas de la Infancia; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Medicina. Departamento de Salud Mental; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Goldschmidt, Micaela Giuliana. Fundación para la Lucha contra las Enfermedades Neurológicas de la Infancia; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Medicina. Departamento de Salud Mental; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Medicina. Departamento de Salud Mental; Argentina
Fil: Wainsztein, Agustina Edith. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Medicina. Departamento de Salud Mental; Argentina. Fundación para la Lucha contra las Enfermedades Neurológicas de la Infancia; Argentina
Fil: Ladrón de Guevara, Maria Soledad. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Medicina. Departamento de Salud Mental; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Fundación para la Lucha contra las Enfermedades Neurológicas de la Infancia; Argentina
Fil: Romero, Carlos. Fundación para la Lucha contra las Enfermedades Neurológicas de la Infancia; Argentina
Fil: Brusco, Luis Ignacio. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Medicina. Hospital de Clínicas General San Martín; Argentina
Fil: Camprodon, Joan A.. Harvard Medical School; Estados Unidos
Fil: Nemeroff, Charles. University of Miami; Estados Unidos
Fil: Guinjoan, Salvador Martín. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Medicina. Departamento de Salud Mental; Argentina. Fundación para la Lucha contra las Enfermedades Neurológicas de la Infancia; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Psicología; Argentina
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spelling Hemispheric specialization in affective responses, cerebral dominance for language, and handedness: Lateralization of emotion, language, and dexterityCostanzo, Elsa YolandaVillarreal, Mirta FabianaDrucaroff, Lucas JavierOrtiz Villafañe, ManuelCastro, Mariana NairGoldschmidt, Micaela GiulianaWainsztein, Agustina EdithLadrón de Guevara, Maria SoledadRomero, CarlosBrusco, Luis IgnacioCamprodon, Joan A.Nemeroff, CharlesGuinjoan, Salvador MartínAMYGDALAANTERIOR INSULAEMOTIONFMRILATERALIZATIONSUBGENUAL CINGULATEhttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/3.1https://purl.org/becyt/ford/3Hemispheric specialization in affective responses has received little attention in the literature. This is a fundamental variable to understand circuit dynamics of networks subserving emotion. In this study we put to test a modified "valence" hypothesis of emotion processing, considering that sadness and happiness are processed by each hemisphere in relation to dominance for language and handedness. Mood induction and language activation during functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) were used in 20 right-handed and 20 nonright-handed subjects, focusing on interconnected regions known to play critical roles in affective responses: subgenual cingulate cortex, amygdala, and anterior insular cortex. We observed a consistent relationship between lateralization of affective processing, motor dexterity, and language in individuals with clear right-handedness. Sadness induces a greater activation of right-hemisphere cortical structures in right-handed, left-dominant individuals, which is not evident in nonright-handed subjects who show no consistent hemispheric dominance for language. In anterior insula, right-handed individuals displayed reciprocal activation of either hemisphere depending upon mood valence, whereas amygdala activation was predominantly left-sided regardless of mood valence. Nonright-handed individuals exhibited less consistent brain lateralization of affective processing regardless of language and motor dexterity lateralization. In contrast with traditional views on emotion processing lateralization, hemispheric specialization in affective responses is not a unitary process but is specific to the brain structure being activated.Fil: Costanzo, Elsa Yolanda. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Medicina. Departamento de Salud Mental; Argentina. Fundación para la Lucha contra las Enfermedades Neurológicas de la Infancia; ArgentinaFil: Villarreal, Mirta Fabiana. Fundación para la Lucha contra las Enfermedades Neurológicas de la Infancia; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires; ArgentinaFil: Drucaroff, Lucas Javier. Fundación para la Lucha contra las Enfermedades Neurológicas de la Infancia; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Medicina. Departamento de Salud Mental; ArgentinaFil: Ortiz Villafañe, Manuel. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Medicina. Departamento de Salud Mental; Argentina. Fundación para la Lucha contra las Enfermedades Neurológicas de la Infancia; ArgentinaFil: Castro, Mariana Nair. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Medicina. Departamento de Ciencias Fisiológicas; Argentina. Fundación para la Lucha contra las Enfermedades Neurológicas de la Infancia; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Medicina. Departamento de Salud Mental; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Goldschmidt, Micaela Giuliana. Fundación para la Lucha contra las Enfermedades Neurológicas de la Infancia; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Medicina. Departamento de Salud Mental; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Medicina. Departamento de Salud Mental; ArgentinaFil: Wainsztein, Agustina Edith. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Medicina. Departamento de Salud Mental; Argentina. Fundación para la Lucha contra las Enfermedades Neurológicas de la Infancia; ArgentinaFil: Ladrón de Guevara, Maria Soledad. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Medicina. Departamento de Salud Mental; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Fundación para la Lucha contra las Enfermedades Neurológicas de la Infancia; ArgentinaFil: Romero, Carlos. Fundación para la Lucha contra las Enfermedades Neurológicas de la Infancia; ArgentinaFil: Brusco, Luis Ignacio. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Medicina. Hospital de Clínicas General San Martín; ArgentinaFil: Camprodon, Joan A.. Harvard Medical School; Estados UnidosFil: Nemeroff, Charles. University of Miami; Estados UnidosFil: Guinjoan, Salvador Martín. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Medicina. Departamento de Salud Mental; Argentina. Fundación para la Lucha contra las Enfermedades Neurológicas de la Infancia; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Psicología; ArgentinaElsevier Science2015-07info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/112738Costanzo, Elsa Yolanda; Villarreal, Mirta Fabiana; Drucaroff, Lucas Javier; Ortiz Villafañe, Manuel; Castro, Mariana Nair; et al.; Hemispheric specialization in affective responses, cerebral dominance for language, and handedness: Lateralization of emotion, language, and dexterity; Elsevier Science; Behavioural Brain Research; 288; 7-2015; 11-190166-4328CONICET DigitalCONICETenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016643281500248info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1016/j.bbr.2015.04.006info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/reponame:CONICET Digital (CONICET)instname:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas2025-10-15T14:35:17Zoai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/112738instacron:CONICETInstitucionalhttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/Organismo científico-tecnológicoNo correspondehttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/oai/requestdasensio@conicet.gov.ar; lcarlino@conicet.gov.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:34982025-10-15 14:35:17.285CONICET Digital (CONICET) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicasfalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Hemispheric specialization in affective responses, cerebral dominance for language, and handedness: Lateralization of emotion, language, and dexterity
title Hemispheric specialization in affective responses, cerebral dominance for language, and handedness: Lateralization of emotion, language, and dexterity
spellingShingle Hemispheric specialization in affective responses, cerebral dominance for language, and handedness: Lateralization of emotion, language, and dexterity
Costanzo, Elsa Yolanda
AMYGDALA
ANTERIOR INSULA
EMOTION
FMRI
LATERALIZATION
SUBGENUAL CINGULATE
title_short Hemispheric specialization in affective responses, cerebral dominance for language, and handedness: Lateralization of emotion, language, and dexterity
title_full Hemispheric specialization in affective responses, cerebral dominance for language, and handedness: Lateralization of emotion, language, and dexterity
title_fullStr Hemispheric specialization in affective responses, cerebral dominance for language, and handedness: Lateralization of emotion, language, and dexterity
title_full_unstemmed Hemispheric specialization in affective responses, cerebral dominance for language, and handedness: Lateralization of emotion, language, and dexterity
title_sort Hemispheric specialization in affective responses, cerebral dominance for language, and handedness: Lateralization of emotion, language, and dexterity
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Costanzo, Elsa Yolanda
Villarreal, Mirta Fabiana
Drucaroff, Lucas Javier
Ortiz Villafañe, Manuel
Castro, Mariana Nair
Goldschmidt, Micaela Giuliana
Wainsztein, Agustina Edith
Ladrón de Guevara, Maria Soledad
Romero, Carlos
Brusco, Luis Ignacio
Camprodon, Joan A.
Nemeroff, Charles
Guinjoan, Salvador Martín
author Costanzo, Elsa Yolanda
author_facet Costanzo, Elsa Yolanda
Villarreal, Mirta Fabiana
Drucaroff, Lucas Javier
Ortiz Villafañe, Manuel
Castro, Mariana Nair
Goldschmidt, Micaela Giuliana
Wainsztein, Agustina Edith
Ladrón de Guevara, Maria Soledad
Romero, Carlos
Brusco, Luis Ignacio
Camprodon, Joan A.
Nemeroff, Charles
Guinjoan, Salvador Martín
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author2 Villarreal, Mirta Fabiana
Drucaroff, Lucas Javier
Ortiz Villafañe, Manuel
Castro, Mariana Nair
Goldschmidt, Micaela Giuliana
Wainsztein, Agustina Edith
Ladrón de Guevara, Maria Soledad
Romero, Carlos
Brusco, Luis Ignacio
Camprodon, Joan A.
Nemeroff, Charles
Guinjoan, Salvador Martín
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author
author
author
author
author
author
author
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv AMYGDALA
ANTERIOR INSULA
EMOTION
FMRI
LATERALIZATION
SUBGENUAL CINGULATE
topic AMYGDALA
ANTERIOR INSULA
EMOTION
FMRI
LATERALIZATION
SUBGENUAL CINGULATE
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dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Hemispheric specialization in affective responses has received little attention in the literature. This is a fundamental variable to understand circuit dynamics of networks subserving emotion. In this study we put to test a modified "valence" hypothesis of emotion processing, considering that sadness and happiness are processed by each hemisphere in relation to dominance for language and handedness. Mood induction and language activation during functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) were used in 20 right-handed and 20 nonright-handed subjects, focusing on interconnected regions known to play critical roles in affective responses: subgenual cingulate cortex, amygdala, and anterior insular cortex. We observed a consistent relationship between lateralization of affective processing, motor dexterity, and language in individuals with clear right-handedness. Sadness induces a greater activation of right-hemisphere cortical structures in right-handed, left-dominant individuals, which is not evident in nonright-handed subjects who show no consistent hemispheric dominance for language. In anterior insula, right-handed individuals displayed reciprocal activation of either hemisphere depending upon mood valence, whereas amygdala activation was predominantly left-sided regardless of mood valence. Nonright-handed individuals exhibited less consistent brain lateralization of affective processing regardless of language and motor dexterity lateralization. In contrast with traditional views on emotion processing lateralization, hemispheric specialization in affective responses is not a unitary process but is specific to the brain structure being activated.
Fil: Costanzo, Elsa Yolanda. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Medicina. Departamento de Salud Mental; Argentina. Fundación para la Lucha contra las Enfermedades Neurológicas de la Infancia; Argentina
Fil: Villarreal, Mirta Fabiana. Fundación para la Lucha contra las Enfermedades Neurológicas de la Infancia; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires; Argentina
Fil: Drucaroff, Lucas Javier. Fundación para la Lucha contra las Enfermedades Neurológicas de la Infancia; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Medicina. Departamento de Salud Mental; Argentina
Fil: Ortiz Villafañe, Manuel. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Medicina. Departamento de Salud Mental; Argentina. Fundación para la Lucha contra las Enfermedades Neurológicas de la Infancia; Argentina
Fil: Castro, Mariana Nair. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Medicina. Departamento de Ciencias Fisiológicas; Argentina. Fundación para la Lucha contra las Enfermedades Neurológicas de la Infancia; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Medicina. Departamento de Salud Mental; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Goldschmidt, Micaela Giuliana. Fundación para la Lucha contra las Enfermedades Neurológicas de la Infancia; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Medicina. Departamento de Salud Mental; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Medicina. Departamento de Salud Mental; Argentina
Fil: Wainsztein, Agustina Edith. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Medicina. Departamento de Salud Mental; Argentina. Fundación para la Lucha contra las Enfermedades Neurológicas de la Infancia; Argentina
Fil: Ladrón de Guevara, Maria Soledad. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Medicina. Departamento de Salud Mental; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Fundación para la Lucha contra las Enfermedades Neurológicas de la Infancia; Argentina
Fil: Romero, Carlos. Fundación para la Lucha contra las Enfermedades Neurológicas de la Infancia; Argentina
Fil: Brusco, Luis Ignacio. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Medicina. Hospital de Clínicas General San Martín; Argentina
Fil: Camprodon, Joan A.. Harvard Medical School; Estados Unidos
Fil: Nemeroff, Charles. University of Miami; Estados Unidos
Fil: Guinjoan, Salvador Martín. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Medicina. Departamento de Salud Mental; Argentina. Fundación para la Lucha contra las Enfermedades Neurológicas de la Infancia; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Psicología; Argentina
description Hemispheric specialization in affective responses has received little attention in the literature. This is a fundamental variable to understand circuit dynamics of networks subserving emotion. In this study we put to test a modified "valence" hypothesis of emotion processing, considering that sadness and happiness are processed by each hemisphere in relation to dominance for language and handedness. Mood induction and language activation during functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) were used in 20 right-handed and 20 nonright-handed subjects, focusing on interconnected regions known to play critical roles in affective responses: subgenual cingulate cortex, amygdala, and anterior insular cortex. We observed a consistent relationship between lateralization of affective processing, motor dexterity, and language in individuals with clear right-handedness. Sadness induces a greater activation of right-hemisphere cortical structures in right-handed, left-dominant individuals, which is not evident in nonright-handed subjects who show no consistent hemispheric dominance for language. In anterior insula, right-handed individuals displayed reciprocal activation of either hemisphere depending upon mood valence, whereas amygdala activation was predominantly left-sided regardless of mood valence. Nonright-handed individuals exhibited less consistent brain lateralization of affective processing regardless of language and motor dexterity lateralization. In contrast with traditional views on emotion processing lateralization, hemispheric specialization in affective responses is not a unitary process but is specific to the brain structure being activated.
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