Abstract The Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) and the Hierarchical Taxonomy of
Psychopathology (HiTOP) represent major dimensional frameworks proposing two …

In response to uncovering brain mechanisms underlying vocal communication and
searching for biomarkers for mental illnesses, speech prosody has been increasingly …

Affective prosody recognition is an important area of research in autism spectrum conditions
where difficulties in social cognition have been frequently observed. To probe into the mixed …

Purpose Emotional speech communication involves multisensory integration of linguistic
(eg, semantic content) and paralinguistic (eg, prosody and facial expressions) messages …

An impairment in pragmatic communication is a core feature of schizophrenia, often
associated with difficulties in social interactions. The pragmatic deficits regard various …

Background Inconsistent results have been reported about the affective prosody recognition
(APR) ability in patients with bipolar (BD) and depressive (DD) disorders. We aimed to (i) …

Deficits in language production and comprehension are characteristic of schizophrenia. To
date, it remains unclear whether these deficits arise from dysfunctional linguistic knowledge …

Patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders experience severe difficulties in
interpersonal communication, as described by traditional psychopathology and current …

Purpose The nature of gender differences in emotion processing has remained unclear due
to the discrepancies in existing literature. This study examined the modulatory effects of …

Emotional prosody is fully embedded in language and can be influenced by the linguistic
properties of a specific language. Considering the limitations of existing Chinese auditory …