Introduction Landau-Kleffner syndrome, aka acquired epileptic aphasia in children, is a type of epilepsy in which the most characteristic symptom is word deafness (aphasia) evolving into auditory agnosia and/or mutism. Since Landau-Kleffner syndrome was discovered by Dr. Landau and Dr. Kleffner in 1957 [1], there have been some case studies examining language outcomes in children suffering from...

In dichotic listening, a right ear advantage for linguistic tasks reflects left hemisphere specialization, and a left ear advantage for prosodic tasks reflects right hemisphere specialization. Three experiments used a response hand manipulation with a dichotic listening task to distinguish between direct access (relative specialization) and callosal relay (absolute specialization) explanations ...

Are the neural systems involved in recognizing affective prosody in language also used for emotion recognition in instrumental music? One way to test this idea is to study musical affect perception in patients with receptive affective aprosodia (RAA). Music perception in RAA is totally unexplored and could provide a powerful way to test the idea that we perceive music as a kind of emotional voice.

Simultaneous measurement of blood flow velocity (BFV) in the middle cerebral arteries was achieved by transcranial Doppler ultrasonography in 36 right-handed volunteers who were instructed to identify the emotion conveyed by prosody or semantics of a number of sentences. The tasks were performed under 2 levels of interference: neutral versus discordant affective value of the modality that had t...

Alterations of cerebral lateralisation in schizophrenia have been reported consistently, and a reduced left-lateralisation has been suggested for language functions. Speech contains non-verbal information, e.g. prosody, and on a behavioural level, the extraction of emotional information from prosody is often impaired in schizophrenia. A previous functional magnetic resonance imaging study sugge...

Multimodal expression is essential for humanoid robots to communicate with people naturally and intelligibly. This paper describes multimodal expression for humanoid robots by mimicking human speech with the ability of expression through “facial colors” . Currently the robot is able to express joy (by turning yellow in the face), anger (red), sadness (blue), and relaxation (green). These colors...

The use of affective speech in robotic applications has increased recent years, especially regarding the developments or studies emotional prosody for a specific group people. current work proposes prosody-based communication system that considers limited parameters found recognition elderly, example. This explored what types voices were more effective understanding presented information, and i...

Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) show deficiencies in prosodic abilities, both pragmatic and affective. Their deficiencies in affective prosody have been mostly related to cognitive difficulties in emotion recognition. The current study tested an alternative hypothesis, linking vocal emotion recognition difficulties in ASD to lower level auditory perceptual deficiencies. Twenty ...

Older adults often report that , although they are able to hear conversations, they have difficulty attending to or understanding what is being said. Interactions between cognitive and perceptual processing are necessary for comprehension. It is possible that older adults have difficulty determining what type of emotional information is represented by the affective tone in which speech is spoke...