Emotional Speech Perception Unfolding in Time: The Role of the Basal Ganglia

This illustration shows an overlay of the respective individual patient lesions indicating maximum overlap in the basal ganglia. Display A: Talairach coordinates (x,y,z): −29, −5, −2. Left corpus nuclei caudati (lesions extend to white matter adjacent to the lateral ventricular wall and inferior frontal, central and precentral sulci). Display B: Talairach coordinates (x,y,z): −28, −3, −4. Left middle-posterior putamen and globus pallidus (lesions extend to the head of the caudate nucleus; internal, external and extreme capsule; posterior insula and deep frontal with matter). Display C: Talairach coordinates (x,y,z): −17, −5, −23. Left inferior middle-posterior putamen (lesions extend to ventromedial striatum). Green/yellowish shades reveal maximum overlap of lesion sites, whereas purple shades reveal minimal lesion site overlap.