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Perception of emotional speech in Parkinson's Disease
Author(s) -
Schröder Christine,
Möbes Janine,
Schütze Martin,
Szymanowski Friedemann,
Nager Wido,
Bangert Marc,
Münte Thomas Frank,
Dengler Reinhard
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
movement disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.352
H-Index - 198
eISSN - 1531-8257
pISSN - 0885-3185
DOI - 10.1002/mds.21038
Subject(s) - emotional prosody , psychology , prosody , mismatch negativity , active listening , parkinson's disease , audiology , oddball paradigm , event related potential , emotionality , perception , cognition , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , disease , electroencephalography , neuroscience , medicine , communication , speech recognition , pathology , computer science
Nonmotor symptoms in Parkinson's disease (PD) involving cognition and emotionality have progressively received attention. The objective of the present study was to investigate recognition of emotional prosody in patients with PD (n = 14) in comparison to healthy control subjects (HC, n = 14). Event‐related brain potentials (ERP) were recorded in a modified oddball paradigm under passive listening and active target detection instructions. Results showed a poorer performance of PD patients in classifying emotional prosody. ERP generated by emotional deviants (happy/sad) during passive listening revealed diminished amplitudes of the mismatch‐related negativity for sad deviants, indicating an impairment of early preattentive processing of emotional prosody in PD. © 2006 Movement Disorder Society