Abnormalities in the processing of emotional prosody from single words in schizophrenia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Abnormalities in emotional prosody processing have been consistently reported in schizophrenia and are related to poor social outcomes. However, the role of stimulus complexity in abnormal emotional prosody processing is still unclear.

Method

We recorded event-related potentials in 16 patients with chronic schizophrenia and 16 healthy controls to investigate: 1) the temporal course of emotional prosody processing; and 2) the relative contribution of prosodic and semantic cues in emotional prosody processing. Stimuli were prosodic single words presented in two conditions: with intelligible (semantic content condition-SCC) and unintelligible semantic content (pure prosody condition-PPC).

Results

Relative to healthy controls, schizophrenia patients showed redu

SUBMITTER: Pinheiro AP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5590837 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature