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Perception of the emotional component of speech by stuttering children against the background of noise: I. Analysis of the efficiency of the identification of various emotions

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The study was devoted to the perception of the speech emotional component by stuttering children under noise impact conditions. The method of study was the evaluation of the probability of an accurate identification of various emotions. Stuttering children were found to be less efficient in identifying all emotions. This fact permitted the assumption that the mechanisms ensuring the identification of emotions against the background of noise by stuttering children form in ontogeny later than that in normally speaking children. Interference immunity of the perception of emotions depends on the emotional coloration of speech. The interhemispheric relations found during the perception of emotions are unstable and, when speech is masked by a noise, acquire the direction that is characteristic of normal children. Thus, the detected ontogenetic features permit one to assume that the establishment of the pattern of interhemispheric relations that is characteristic of normal children is among the reasons of the weakening of stuttering against the background of noise under such conditions.

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Dmitrieva, E.S., Gel’man, V.Y. & Zaitseva, K.A. Perception of the emotional component of speech by stuttering children against the background of noise: I. Analysis of the efficiency of the identification of various emotions. Hum Physiol 26, 258–264 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02760185

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