title: Facial, vocal and musical emotion recognition is altered in paranoid schizophrenic patients.
abstract: Disturbed processing of emotional faces and voices is typically observed in schizophrenia. This deficit leads to impaired social cognition and interactions. In this study, we investigated whether impaired processing of emotions also affects musical stimuli, which are widely present in daily life and known for their emotional impact. Thirty schizophrenic patients and 30 matched healthy controls evaluated the emotional content of musical, vocal and facial stimuli. Schizophrenic patients are less accurate than healthy controls in recognizing emotion in music, voices and faces. Our results confirm impaired recognition of emotion in voice and face stimuli in schizophrenic patients and extend this observation to the recognition of emotion in musical stimuli.
authors.affiliation: Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Psychological Sciences Research Institute (IPSY), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium; National Research Fund (FNR), Luxembourg. Electronic address: Anne.Weisgerber@uclouvain.be.
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Weisgerber
authors.affiliation: Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Psychological Sciences Research Institute (IPSY), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium; Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.-FNRS), Belgium.
authors.forename: Nicolas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Vermeulen
authors.affiliation: International Laboratory for Brain, Music, and Sound research (BRAMS), Université de Montréal, Canada.
authors.forename: Isabelle
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Peretz
authors.affiliation: Neuropsychology and Auditory Cognition, University Lille-Nord de France, France.
authors.forename: Séverine
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Samson
authors.affiliation: Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Psychological Sciences Research Institute (IPSY), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Philippot
authors.affiliation: Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Psychological Sciences Research Institute (IPSY), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium; Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.-FNRS), Belgium.
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Maurage
authors.affiliation: Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Psychological Sciences Research Institute (IPSY), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: De Graeuwe D'Aoust
authors.affiliation: Department of Adult Psychiatry, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Institute of Neurosciences (IoNS), 1200 Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: Aline
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: De Jaegere
authors.affiliation: Psychiatric Hospital Beau Vallon, Namur, Belgium.
authors.forename: Benoît
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Delatte
authors.affiliation: Clinique Saint-Pierre, Ottignies, Belgium.
authors.forename: Benoît
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Gillain
authors.affiliation: Psychiatric Hospital Beau Vallon, Namur, Belgium.
authors.forename: Xavier
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: De Longueville
authors.affiliation: Department of Adult Psychiatry, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Institute of Neurosciences (IoNS), 1200 Brussels, Belgium. Electronic address: Eric.Constant@uclouvain.be.
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Constant
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation / Q000379:methods; D000328:Adult; D004644:Emotions; D005149:Facial Expression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009146:Music / Q000523:psychology*; D010775:Photic Stimulation / Q000379:methods; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D012563:Schizophrenia, Paranoid / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D012919:Social Behavior; D013067:Speech Perception; D014831:Voice; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Emotion; Face; Music; Schizophrenia; Voice