THE ROLE OF THE RIGHT-HEMISPHERE IN EMOTIONAL COMMUNICATION
THE ROLE OF THE RIGHT-HEMISPHERE IN EMOTIONAL COMMUNICATION
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DOI：
10.1093/brain/114.3.1115
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发表时间：
1991-06-01
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影响因子：
14.5
通讯作者：
HEILMAN, KM
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作者：
BLONDER, LX;BOWERS, D;HEILMAN, KM
先前的研究已经证实，右脑损伤(RHD)患者在情感韵律和面部表情的理解方面存在障碍。对于这种损害，有几种解释。它可能反映了声音和视觉空间分析的缺陷，非语言交际表征的中断，或对情感意义的理解障碍。为了验证这些假说，我们要求风湿性心脏病患者、左半球受损患者(LHD)和正常对照组(NC)判断描述非语言表达的句子和描述情绪情况的句子的情绪内容。我们发现，RHD受试者在推断描述情景的句子所传达的情绪的能力方面表现正常。然而，与LHD和NC相比，RHD患者在判断描述面部、韵律和手势表达的句子的情感内容方面都受到了损害，这表明非语言交流表达受到了干扰。
Previous research has established that patients with right hemisphere damage (RHD) are impaired in the comprehension of emotional prosody and facial expression. There are several explanations for this impairment. It may reflect defective acoustic and visuospatial analysis, disruption of nonverbal communicative representations, or a disturbance in the comprehension of emotional meaning. In order to examine these hypotheses, we asked RHD patients, left hemisphere damaged patients (LHD) and normal controls (NC) to judge the emotional content of sentences describing nonverbal expressions, and sentences describing emotional situations. We found that RHD subjects performed normally in their ability to infer the emotion conveyed by sentences describing situations. However, RHD patients were impaired in relation to both LHD and NC in the capacity to judge the emotional content of sentences depicting facial, prosodic, and gestural expressions, suggesting a disruption of nonverbal communicative representations.