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Defective comprehension of emotional faces and prosody as a result of right hemisphere stroke: Modality versus emotion-type specificity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2006

MICHAL HARCIAREK ,
KENNETH M. HEILMAN  and
KRZYSZTOF JODZIO
MICHAL HARCIAREK
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychology, University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland
KENNETH M. HEILMAN
Affiliation:
Department of Neurology, University of Florida College of Medicine and VAMC, Gainesville, Florida
KRZYSZTOF JODZIO
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychology, University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland
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Abstract

Studies of patients with brain damage, as well as studies with normal subjects have revealed that the right hemisphere is important for recognizing emotions expressed by faces and prosody. It is unclear, however, if the knowledge needed to perform recognition of emotional stimuli is organized by modality or by the type of emotion. Thus, the purpose of this study is to assess these alternative a priori hypotheses. The participants of this study were 30 stroke patients with right hemisphere damage (RHD) and 31 normal controls (NC). Subjects were assessed with the Polish adaptation of the Right Hemisphere Language Battery of Bryan and the Facial Affect Recognition Test based on work of Ekman and Friesen. RHD participants were significantly impaired on both emotional tasks. Whereas on the visual-faces task the RHD subjects recognized happiness better than anger or sadness, the reverse dissociation was found in the auditory-prosody test. These results confirm prior studies demonstrating the role of the right hemisphere in understanding facial and prosodic emotional expressions. These results also suggest that the representations needed to recognize these emotional stimuli are organized by modality (prosodic-echoic and facial-eidetic) and that some modality specific features are more impaired than others. (JINS, 2006, 12, 774–781.)

Keywords

Nonverbal communicationCerebral infarctionEmotional perception impairmentAprosodiaFacial affectRight hemisphere
Type
Research Article
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Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society , Volume 12 , Issue 6 , November 2006 , pp. 774 - 781
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© 2006 The International Neuropsychological Society

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