Auditory tasks for assessment of sensory function and affective prosody in schizophrenia

Schizophrenia patients exhibit impairments in auditory-based social cognition, indicated by deficits in detection of prosody, such as affective prosody and basic pitch perception. However, little is known about the psychometric properties of behavioral tests used to assess these functions. The goal of this paper is to characterize the properties of prosody and pitch perception tasks and to investigate whether they can be shortened. The pitch perception test evaluated is a tone-matching task developed by Javitt and colleagues (J-TMT).

Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry - August 18, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Eva Petkova, Feihan Lu, Joshua Kantrowitz, Jamie L. Sanchez, Jonathan Lehrfeld, Nayla Scaramello, Gail Silipo, Joanna DiCostanza, Marina Ross, Zhe Su, Daniel C. Javitt, Pamela D. Butler Source Type: research