[en] A matching task between sentences voiced with joyful, angry, or sad intonation and pictures of facial expressions representing the same emotions is proposed to 27 aphasics and 20 normal subjects. Semantic contents are either meaningless, neutral, or affectively loaded. In the affective-meaning condition, content is redundant with prosody or conflicting with it. Results are 1. a greater number of nonprosodic choices in the aphasic group; 2. an identical influence of the congruence/conflict variable on aphasics and control subjects; 3. an identical influence of the semantic content of the conflict sentences on both groups. Aphasic impairment is interpreted as purely quantitative, since affective semantic content influences the decoding of the sentences
Disciplines :
Neurosciences & behavior
Author, co-author :
Seron, Xavier
Van Der Kaa, Marie-Anne
Van der Linden, Martial ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cognitives > Psychopathologie cognitive
Remitz, A.
Feyereisen, Pierre
Language :
English
Title :
Decoding paralinguistic signals: Effects of semantic and prosodic cues on aphasic's comprehension
Publication date :
1982
Journal title :
Journal of Communication Disorders
ISSN :
0021-9924
eISSN :
1873-7994
Publisher :
Elsevier Scientific, New York, United States - New York
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