Emotional prosody perception and production in Dementia of the Alzheimer's type

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1132-1146

  Horley, Kaye ^a   Reid, Amanda ^a   Burnham, Denis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Dementia; Emotion perception; Emotional prosody; Expressive prosody; Intonation; Receptive prosody

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFERENCE VALUE; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHONETICS; REFERENCE VALUES; SPEECH; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 77957564247     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2010/09-0030)     Document Type: Article

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