Yohana Lévêque, Eliane Roulet-Perez, Thierry Deonna, Annie Moulin, Lesly Fornoni, Claire Mayor-Dubois, Anne Caclin, Barbara Tillmann
Verbal-auditory agnosia and aphasia are the most prominent symptoms in Landau-Kleffner syndrome (LKS), a childhood epilepsy that can have sustained long-term effects on language processing. The present study provides the first objective investigation of music perception skills in four adult patients with a diagnosis of LKS during childhood, covering the spectrum of severity of the syndrome from mild to severe. Pitch discrimination, short-term memory for melodic, rhythmic and verbal information, as well as emotion recognition in music and speech prosody were assessed with listening tests, and subjective attitude to music with a questionnaire...
August 2020: Cortex; a Journal Devoted to the Study of the Nervous System and Behavior