Article

Facial and vocal emotions contribute to sustain efficient social
relationships. Brain disease may impair their identification. In the case of
slow-growth tumors (Low Grade Gliomas [LGG]) or sudden stroke (cerebrovascular
accidents [CVA]), the lesions induce contrasted plasticity and reorganisation
processes. METHODS:
We compared the facial, vocal and intermodal identification
of six emotions (happiness, fear, angriness, sadness, disgust and neutral) of
three groups: patients with LGG before and after tumor resection, patients with
CVA and control subjects. RESULTS: In LGG patients, the results revealed less
efficient performances after tumor resection and in CVA patients weak
performances regarding negative emotions. The intermodal condition (simultaneous
visual and vocal association) improved performances in all groups and enabled
equivalent performance in CVA subjects compared with control subjects.
CONCLUSION: The intergroup differences may be related to variable brain
plasticity as a function of type and rapidity of brain injury. Intermodal
processing appears to be a compensatory condition.
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