期刊
NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA
卷 48, 期 4, 页码 1104-1114出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.12.011
关键词
Voice; Face; Person knowledge; Prosopagnosia; Frontotemporal lobar degeneration; Dementia
资金
- Department of Health's NIHR Biomedical Research Centres
- Wellcome Trust
- UK Medical Research Council
- Alzheimer's Research Trust
- Medical Research Council [G0801306, G0500221] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [G0500221, G0801306] Funding Source: UKRI
There are few detailed studies of impaired voice recognition, or phonagnosia. Here we describe two patients with progressive phonagnosia in the context of frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Patient QR presented with behavioural decline and increasing difficulty recognising familiar voices, while patient KL presented with progressive prosopagnosia. In a series of neuro psychological experiments we assessed the ability of QR and KL to recognise and judge the familiarity of voices, faces and proper names, to recognise vocal emotions, to perceive and discriminate voices, and to recognise environmental sounds and musical instruments. The patients were assessed in relation to a group of healthy age-matched control subjects. QR exhibited severe impairments of voice identification and familiarity judgments with relatively preserved recognition of difficulty-matched faces and environmental sounds; recognition of musical instruments was impaired, though better than recognition of voices. In contrast, patient KL exhibited severe impairments of both voice and face recognition, with relatively preserved recognition of musical instruments and environmental sounds. Both patients demonstrated preserved ability to analyse perceptual properties of voices and to recognise vocal emotions. The voice processing deficit in both patients could be characterised as associative phonagnosia: in the case of QR, this was relatively selective for voices, while in the case of KL, there was evidence for a multimodal impairment of person knowledge. The findings have implications for current cognitive models of voice recognition. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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