Deficient recognition of emotional prosody in primary focal dystonia

Nikolova, Z.; Fellbrich, Anja; Born, Jan; Dengler, Reinhard; Schröder, Christine

doi:10.1111/j.1468-1331.2010.03144.x

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“…Which are the relations between prosody and motor control at neuroanatomical level? Data obtained from patients with primary focal dystonia evidenced a significant impairment in auditory prosody recognition compared to an healthy population ( Nikolova et al, 2011 ).…”

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The Effects of Meaning and Emotional Content of a Sentence on the Kinematics of a Successive Motor Sequence Mimiking the Feeding of a Conspecific

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Aim: Do the emotional content and meaning of sentences affect the kinematics of successive motor sequences?Material and Methods: Participants observed video-clips of an actor pronouncing sentences expressing positive or negative emotions and meanings (related to happiness or anger in Experiment 1 and food admiration or food disgust in Experiment 2). Then, they reached-to-grasp and placed a sugar lump on the actor’s mouth. Participants acted in response to sentences whose content could convey (1) emotion (i.e., face expression and prosody) and meaning, (2) meaning alone, or (3) emotion alone. Within each condition, the kinematic effects of sentences expressing positive and negative emotions were compared. Stimuli (positive for food admiration and negative for food disgust), conveyed either by emotion or meaning affected similarly the kinematics of both grasp and reach.Results: In Experiment 1, the kinematics did not vary between positive and negative sentences either when the content was expressed by both emotion and meaning, or meaning alone. In contrast, in the case of sole emotion, sentences with positive valence made faster the approach of the conspecific. In Experiment 2, the valence of emotions (positive for food admiration and negative for food disgust) affected the kinematics of both grasp and reach, independently of the modality.Discussion: The lack of an effect of meaning in Experiment 1 could be due to the weak relevance of sentence meaning with respect to the motor sequence goal (feeding). Experiment 2 demonstrated that, indeed, this was the case, because when the meaning and the consequent emotion were related to the sequence goal, they affected the kinematics. In contrast, the sole emotion activated approach or avoidance toward the actor according to positive and negative valence. The data suggest a behavioral dissociation between effects of emotion and meaning.

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The Effects of Meaning and Emotional Content of a Sentence on the Kinematics of a Successive Motor Sequence Mimiking the Feeding of a Conspecific

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“…A study of 32 patients (20 with cervical dystonia and 12 with blepharospasm) found that patients had difficulty identifying the facial expression of “disgust” compared to age‐matched controls, with nonsignificant trends for impaired recognition of happiness and sadness . Another study of the perception of emotional speech prosody reported deficits in the recognition of angrily intonated words in 30 patients with cervical dystonia, compared to control participants …”

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The premotor syndrome of cervical dystonia: Disordered processing of salient environmental stimuli

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“…Among these, most crucial is the fundamental frequency (F0), followed by duration, and intensity [2]. A great deal of work in neuropsychology has focused on emotional prosody in normal-hearing (NH) individuals and in neurological conditions such as Parkinson’s disease [3] and primary focal Dystonia [4] but rarely in individuals with hearing loss. Individuals with severe to profound hearing loss have a limited dynamic range of frequency, temporal and intensity resolution, thus impairing their perception of prosody.…”

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ERP evidence for the recognition of emotional prosody through simulated cochlear implant strategies

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BackgroundEmotionally salient information in spoken language can be provided by variations in speech melody (prosody) or by emotional semantics. Emotional prosody is essential to convey feelings through speech. In sensori-neural hearing loss, impaired speech perception can be improved by cochlear implants (CIs). Aim of this study was to investigate the performance of normal-hearing (NH) participants on the perception of emotional prosody with vocoded stimuli. Semantically neutral sentences with emotional (happy, angry and neutral) prosody were used. Sentences were manipulated to simulate two CI speech-coding strategies: the Advance Combination Encoder (ACE) and the newly developed Psychoacoustic Advanced Combination Encoder (PACE). Twenty NH adults were asked to recognize emotional prosody from ACE and PACE simulations. Performance was assessed using behavioral tests and event-related potentials (ERPs).ResultsBehavioral data revealed superior performance with original stimuli compared to the simulations. For simulations, better recognition for happy and angry prosody was observed compared to the neutral. Irrespective of simulated or unsimulated stimulus type, a significantly larger P200 event-related potential was observed for happy prosody after sentence onset than the other two emotions. Further, the amplitude of P200 was significantly more positive for PACE strategy use compared to the ACE strategy.ConclusionsResults suggested P200 peak as an indicator of active differentiation and recognition of emotional prosody. Larger P200 peak amplitude for happy prosody indicated importance of fundamental frequency (F0) cues in prosody processing. Advantage of PACE over ACE highlighted a privileged role of the psychoacoustic masking model in improving prosody perception. Taken together, the study emphasizes on the importance of vocoded simulation to better understand the prosodic cues which CI users may be utilizing.

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Deficient recognition of emotional prosody in primary focal dystonia

Abstract: Together these findings bring further insight into the basal ganglia involvement in processing of emotional prosody and emphasize the importance to identify the psychopathological symptoms in patients with CD as complementary to the motor deficit.

Cited by 25 publications

References 40 publications

The Effects of Meaning and Emotional Content of a Sentence on the Kinematics of a Successive Motor Sequence Mimiking the Feeding of a Conspecific

The Effects of Meaning and Emotional Content of a Sentence on the Kinematics of a Successive Motor Sequence Mimiking the Feeding of a Conspecific

The premotor syndrome of cervical dystonia: Disordered processing of salient environmental stimuli

ERP evidence for the recognition of emotional prosody through simulated cochlear implant strategies

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