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Preliminary findings on the relation between the personality trait of stress reaction and the central neural control of human vocalization
- Source :
- International journal of speech-language pathology. 14(4)
- Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- The objectives of this study were to examine whether the personality trait of stress reaction (SR), as assessed with the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire-Brief Form (MPQ-BF), (1) influences prefrontal and limbic area activity during overt sentence reading and if (2) SR and associated individual differences in prefrontal and limbic activations correlate with sensorimotor cortical activity during overt sentence reading. Ten vocally healthy adults (22-57 years) participated in a functional MRI study using an event-related sparse sampling design to acquire brain activation data during sentence production tasks (covert, whispered, overt). The outcome measure was the blood oxygenation level-dependent signal change in prefrontal, limbic, and primary somatosensory (S1) and motor cortices (M1). Significant positive correlations were found between SR scores and S1, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (both r =.73, p.05), and periaqueductal gray (r =.88, p.01) activity. M1 activity was positively correlated with SR (r =.64, p.05) and negatively with social potency (r = -.70, p.05). Our findings suggest that motor cortical control subserving voice and speech production varies with expression of selected personality traits. Future studies should investigate the functional significance of personality differences in the central neural control of vocalization.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Central Nervous System
Male
Personality Tests
medicine.medical_specialty
media_common.quotation_subject
Emotions
Prefrontal Cortex
Audiology
Somatosensory system
Periaqueductal gray
Language and Linguistics
Developmental psychology
Speech and Hearing
Limbic system
Stress, Physiological
Surveys and Questionnaires
Outcome Assessment, Health Care
medicine
Limbic System
Personality
Humans
media_common
Cerebral Cortex
Research and Theory
medicine.diagnostic_test
Middle Aged
LPN and LVN
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
medicine.anatomical_structure
Otorhinolaryngology
Trait
Voice
Female
Functional magnetic resonance imaging
Psychology
Sentence
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 17549515
- Volume :
- 14
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International journal of speech-language pathology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....58e09471603374563937d14148b0e273