Impairment in decoding affective prosody and body postures has also been observed in alcoholics (Maurage et al., 2009; Monnot et al., 2002; Monnot et al., 2001). Emotional prosody deficits may be exacerbated when the affective prosody does not match the semantic content in sentences or when trying to match affective prosody to facial expressions (Uekermann et al., 2005). Some alcoholic patients do not benefit from the crossmodal processing facilitation effect, that is, when affective information is conveyed through multiple sensory modalities [e.g., simultaneous auditory (voices) – visual (faces) processing] (Maurage et al., 2007; Maurage et al., 2013).
