Article Title：Impaired processing of affective prosody in Korsakoff's syndrome
Abstract：
In order to further characterize reported deficits in affect perception in alcoholic Korsakoff patients, selected prosody subtests from the Tubingen 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.
Keywords: affect recognition; emotion; emotional perception; neuropsychology; Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70046-7
Source：CORTEX
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