Impaired processing of affective prosody in Korsakoff's syndrome.
In order to further characterize reported deficits in affect perception in alcoholic Korsakoff patients, selected prosody subtests from the Tübingen Affect Battery were administered to seven Korsakoff patients and seven normal control participants. Results indicated that both linguistic and affective prosody discrimination were intact in Korsakoff patients. As well, affective prosody identification was unimpaired when the semantic content of the sentence was emotionally congruent with affective prosody. In contrast, affective prosody identification was significantly impaired when the semantic content was either neutral or incongruent with prosody. These results suggest that Korsakoff patients are impaired in interpreting the meaning of affective prosody in the absence of semantic cues as to the emotional content of sentences.
Snitz
Beth E
BE
Faculty of Psychology, AE Neuropsychology, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany.
Hellinger
Anne
A
Daum
Irene
I
D000339:Affect; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D006801:Humans; D020915:Korsakoff Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D012660:Semantics; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013067:Speech Perception