The perception of Mandarin speech conveying communicative functions in Chinese heroin addicts.

ABSTRACT: Drug addiction can cause severe damage to the human brain, leading to significant problems in cognitive processing, such as irritability, speech distortions, and exaggeration of negative stimuli. Speech plays a fundamental role in social interaction, including both the production and perception. The ability to perceive communicative functions conveyed through speech is crucial for successful interpersonal communication and the maintaining good social relationships. However, due to the limited number of previous studies, it remains unclear whether the cognitive disorder caused by drug addiction affects the perception of communicative function conveyed in Mandarin speech. To address this question, we conducted a perception experiment involving sixty male participants, including 25 heroin add

SUBMITTER: Geng P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10889662 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature