While some individuals with agenesis of the corpus callosum can perform normally on standardized intelligence tests, clinical observations suggest that they nevertheless have deficits in the domains of fluid and social intelligence. Particularly important for social competence is adequate understanding and use of paralinguistic information. This study examined the impact of callosal absence on ...

Speech and prosody-voice profiles for 15 male speakers with High-Functioning Autism (HFA) and 15 male speakers with Asperger syndrome (AS) were compared to one another and to profiles for 53 typically developing male speakers in the same 10- to 50-years age range. Compared to the typically developing speakers, significantly more participants in both the HFA and AS groups had residual articulati...

Abstract Background Children with hearing impairment are deprived of their source linguistic input which in turn leads to and prosodic deficits that negatively affect language social development. Linguistic aspects other than prosody have received considerable attention studies concerned hearing-impaired children little literature addressing how improve affective deficits. The aim the current s...

Disturbances in understanding and expression of emotional prosody of speech (aprosodia) belong to frequent but rarely described symptoms of schizophrenia, that negatively influence the life quality of patients. The role of prosody in the process of verbal communication is to complement and emphasize the language (linguistic prosody) and affective (emotional prosody) aspects of the spoken announ...

BACKGROUND Theory of Mind (ToM) refers to the ability to infer another person's mental state based upon interactional information. ToM deficits have been suggested to underlie crucial aspects of social interaction failure in disorders such as autism and schizophrenia, although the development of paradigms for demonstrating such deficits remains an ongoing area of research. Recent studies have e...

Klinefelter (van Rijn et al., 2006a). Difficulties in social adaptation and abnormal brain asymmetries suggest that a genetic mechanism (involving genes on theX chromosome)might affect the development of social cognition in XXY men. Language and emotion are important aspects of social cognition. Reduced or abnormal lateralization of language has been found in Klinefelter's syndrome (Geschwind,1...

This paper summarizes a flora of explorative visualization techniques for prosody developed at KTH. It is demonstrated how analysis can be made which goes beyond conventional methodology. Examples are given for turn taking, affective speech, response tokens and Swedish accent II.

BACKGROUND The Prosody-Voice Screening Profile PVSP. A final section provides detailed (PVSP) is a perceptual procedure to assess a prosody-voice reference data for children with speaker's prosody and voice in conversational normal speech-language development and speech. The PVSP provides summative and children with speech-language disorders of per-utterance data on the appropriateness of known...