Decoding of nonverbal language in alcoholism: A perception or a labeling problem?

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors : Journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors
Charles KornreichPierre Maurage

Abstract

Alcohol-dependent patients have difficulty recognizing social cues such as emotional facial expressions, prosody, and postures. However, most researchers describing these difficulties rely on labeling tasks. It therefore remains difficult to disentangle genuine emotion-decoding problems from emotion-labeling impairments. In the present study, 35 recently detoxified alcohol-dependent patients were compared with 35 matched controls on four emotion-pairing tasks to explore the distinction between labeling and perceptual abilities. First, 2 tasks were used to assess emotion-labeling ability (labeling task) and working memory (necessary to process emotional stimuli; control matching task). Next, 2 experimental pairing tasks were used to explore unimodal, Face-face or voice-voice) and cross-modal, Face-voice or voice-face) matching abilities in the absence of any labeling requirement. Patients had difficulty accurately processing voices in unimodal tasks and correctly matching emotional stimuli in cross-modal tasks. Specifically, they did not correctly identify neutral stimuli in unimodal or cross-modal tasks and did not correctly identify fear in cross-modal tasks. Reaction times were also slower in these patients. However, accuracy...Continue Reading

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Apr 13, 2017·Neuropharmacology·Philippe de TimarySophie Leclercq
Oct 11, 2017·Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research·Claudia I RuppW Wolfgang Fleischhacker
Jul 27, 2018·Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research·Kasey G Creswell, Tammy Chung
Aug 29, 2018·Current Neuropharmacology·Coralie CreupelandtPierre Maurage
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