Perception of emotional speech in Parkinson's disease

Christine Shröder, Janine Möbes, Martin Schütze, Friedemann Szymanowski, Wido Nager, Marc Bangert, Thomas Frank Münte, Reinhard Dengler

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
JournalMovement Disorders
Volume21
Issue number10
Pages (from-to)1774-1778
Number of pages5
ISSN0885-3185
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01.10.2006

Research Areas and Centers

  • Academic Focus: Center for Brain, Behavior and Metabolism (CBBM)

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