Department of Otolaryngology, Head, Neck and Maxillofacial Surgery, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel.
Int J Audiol. 2020 Mar;59(3):195-207. doi: 10.1080/14992027.2019.1677952. Epub 2019 Oct 30.
Understanding communication difficulties related to tinnitus, by identifying tinnitus-related differences in the perception of spoken emotions, focussing on the roles of semantics (words), prosody (tone of speech) and their interaction. Twenty-two people-with-tinnitus (PwT) and 24 people-without-tinnitus (PnT) listened to spoken sentences made of different combinations of four discrete emotions (anger, happiness, sadness, neutral) presented in the prosody and semantics (Test for Rating Emotions in Speech). In separate blocks, listeners were asked to attend to the sentence as a whole, integrating both speech channels (gauging integration), or to focus on one channel only (gauging identification and selective attention). Their task was to rate how much they agree the sentence conveys each of the predefined emotions. Both groups identified emotions similarly, and performed with similar failures of selective attention. Group differences were found in the integration of channels. PnT showed a bias towards prosody, whereas PwT weighed both channels equally. Tinnitus appears to impact the integration of the prosodic and semantic channels. Three possible sources are suggested: (a) sensory: tinnitus may reduce prosodic cues. (b) Cognitive: tinnitus-related reduction in cognitive processing.
通过识别与耳鸣相关的口语情绪感知差异，了解与耳鸣相关的沟通困难，重点关注语义（单词）、韵律（语音语调）及其相互作用。22 名耳鸣患者（PwT）和 24 名非耳鸣患者（PnT）聆听了由四种离散情绪（愤怒、快乐、悲伤、中性）以不同组合构成的口语句子，这些句子以韵律和语义的形式呈现（言语情绪评定测试）。在单独的模块中，要求听众将注意力集中在句子的整体上，整合两个语音通道（评估整合），或者只关注一个通道（评估识别和选择性注意）。他们的任务是评估他们对句子传达每个预定义情绪的认同程度。两组人在识别情绪方面表现相似，并且在选择性注意方面都存在相似的失败。在通道整合方面发现了组间差异。非耳鸣患者表现出对韵律的偏好，而耳鸣患者则平等地重视两个通道。耳鸣似乎会影响韵律和语义通道的整合。提出了三种可能的来源：（a）感觉：耳鸣可能会减少韵律线索。（b）认知：与耳鸣相关的认知加工减少。
