Discrimination and identification of emotions in human voice by brain-damaged subjects.
Discrimination and identification of emotions in human voice was studied in normal controls and in 4 groups of brain-damaged subjects, subdivided along the right/left and anterior/posterior dimensions. Results showed a failure of right-brain-damaged patients, the right posterior group being significantly worse than all the other groups. Qualitative differences emerged as well: both a conceptual and an acoustic deficit seem to contribute to right posterior patient performance.
D001039:Aphasia, Broca / Q000523:psychology; D001041:Aphasia, Wernicke / Q000523:psychology; D001925:Brain Damage, Chronic / Q000523:psychology*; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000523:psychology; D003463:Cues; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010700:Phonetics; D013067:Speech Perception