Hearing feelings: affective categorization of music and speech in alexithymia, an ERP study.

BACKGROUND: Alexithymia, a condition characterized by deficits in interpreting and regulating feelings, is a risk factor for a variety of psychiatric conditions. Little is known about how alexithymia influences the processing of emotions in music and speech. Appreciation of such emotional qualities...

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Main Authors: Katharina Sophia Goerlich, Jurriaan Witteman, André Aleman, Sander Martens
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3090419?pdf=render

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