PERCEPTION AND PRODUCTION OF INTONATION IN MODERATE AND SEVERE HEAD INJURIES.
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Title
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PERCEPTION AND PRODUCTION OF INTONATION IN MODERATE AND SEVERE HEAD INJURIES.
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Identifier
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AAI8501192
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identifier
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8501192
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Creator
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ZAZULA, TANIA OLGA.
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Contributor
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Steven Mattis
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Date
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1984
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Psychology, Experimental
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Abstract
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Moderately and severely head-injured patients were evaluated on their ability to perceive and produce affective vocal intonation and on their ability to conceptualize affective terms. Difficulty in the production of prosody has been identified as a source of social difficulties in patients with neurologic dysfunction. Accurate perception of prosody may play an equally important role in communication and social interaction. Head-injured patients present with a myriad of cognitive sequelae. Difficulties in communicative skills, as part of these sequelae could further impede successful social and occupational reintegration post-trauma.;Patients enrolled in this study were all moderately or severely injured head trauma victims. They were evaluated on a perceptual affective intonation task, a task requiring the production of intonation, an affective concept formation task, and the Vineland Social Maturity Scale. Selected tests from a standard neuropsychological battery were also administered. A group of patients' relatives and hospital employees served as a control group.;Results of this study indicate that patients were significantly poorer than controls in their perception and production of vocal intonation, but not in the conceptual identification of affective terms. Pathologic and neuropsychologic measures indicate that brainstem compression was associated with deficits in the perception of intonation, while right hemispheric anterior pathology was associated with difficulties in producing affective intonation. Brainstem compression and the presence of right hemispheric pathology were associated with lower scores on the Vineland Social Maturity Scale, indicating that patients with brainstem compression and associated perceptual intonational difficulties as part of their cluster of sequelae are more likely to have difficulty in social and occupational adjustment post-trauma.;The present study has identified deficits within the perception and production of affective prosody in head trauma patients. These findings illustrate the need for studying and quantifying suspected difficulties in other aspects of perceptual and motor affective functions and for the development of an affective therapy for head-injured patients that will parallel other forms of cognitive therapy.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Psychology
