Disrupting inferior frontal cortex activity alters affect decoding efficiency from clear but not from ambiguous affective speech
Ceravolo, L.; Moisa, M.; Grandjean, D.; Ruff, C.; Fruhholz, S.
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The evaluation of socio-affective sound information is accomplished by the primate auditory cortex in collaboration with limbic and inferior frontal cortex (IFC)--often observed during affective voice classification. Partly opposing views have been proposed, with IFC either coding cognitive processing challenges in case of sensory ambiguity or representing categorical object and affect information for clear voices. Here, we presented clear and ambiguous affective speech to two groups of human participants during neuroimaging, while in one group we inhibited right IFC activity with transcranial magnetic stimulation. IFC activity inhibition led to faster affective decisions, more accurate choice probabilities, reduced auditory cortical activity and increased fronto-limbic connectivity for clear affective speech. This indicates a more intermediate functional property of the IFC than assumed--namely with normal activity representing a more deliberate form of affective sound processing (i.e., enforcing cognitive analysis) that flags categorical sound decisions with precaution (i.e., representation of categorical uncertainty). TeaserInferior frontal cortex enforces cognitive analyses during affect decisions with different levels of sensory ambiguity.
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