Many people with the diagnosis of Asperger syndrome (AS) show poorly developed skills in
understanding emotional messages. The present study addressed discrimination of speech …

Asperger syndrome (AS), belonging to the autism spectrum of disorders, is one of the
pervasive developmental disorders. Individuals with AS usually have normal development of …

Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are characterized by deficient social and communication
skills, including difficulties in perceiving speech prosody. The present study addressed …

Asperger's syndrome (AS) belongs to the group of autism spectrum disorders and is
characterized by deficits in social interaction, as manifested eg by the lack of social or …

Asperger Syndrome (AS) is characterized by normal language development but deficient
understanding and use of the intonation and prosody of speech. While individuals with AS …

It is known that individuals with Asperger syndrome (AS) may show no problems with regard
to what is said (eg, lexical content) but tend to have difficulties in how utterances are …

Abstract Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are characterized by severe
deficits in social communication, whereby the nature of their impairments in emotional …

We report findings concerning the understanding of prosody in Asperger Syndrome (AS), a
topic which has attracted little attention and led to contradictory results. Ability to understand …

Emotional prosody provides important cues for understanding the emotions of others in
every day communication. Asperger's syndrome (AS) is a developmental disorder …

Prosody is an important tool of human communication, carrying both affective and pragmatic
messages in speech. Prosody recognition relies on processing of acoustic cues, such as the …