We studied patients with damage of either the right (RHD) or left hemisphere (LHD) and
control subjects to determine whether the RHD patients had a global or limited prosodic …

We examined a series of 59 patients with acute stroke lesions for the presence of
comprehension emotional aprosody. Based on a standardized assessment of …

• In addition to grammar and semantics, prosody constitutes a third element of speech.
Modulations of prosody can produce alterations in the meaning and affective tone of spoken …

Stimuli from two previously presented comprehension tasks of affective and linguistic
prosody (Pell & Baum, 1997) were analyzed acoustically and subjected to several …

To test a number of hypotheses concerning the functional lateralization of speech prosody,
the ability of unilaterally right-hemisphere-damaged (RHD), unilaterally left-hemisphere …

Objective: To assess the ability of patients with AD to produce, repeat, and comprehend
affective prosody in relationship to severity of dementia, aphasic deficits, and changes in …

Background: Defects in expressing or understanding the affective or emotional tone of
speech (aprosodias) have been associated with right hemisphere dysfunction, while defects …

Two studies were conducted in order to determine whether the poor performance of RHD
patients on emotional prosody tasks could be attributed to a defect in perceiving …

The ability to perceive and express emotional, as well as number of linguistic prosodic
qualities of speech was tested in 20 Swedish‐speaking patients with right‐sided cortical, as …

Patients with right parietal disease have disturbed comprehension of affective speech.
Ability to discriminate affective speech (make same/different discriminations) and ability to …