Emotion recognition of faces and emoji in individuals with moderate-severe traumatic brain injury.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Facial emotion recognition deficits are common after moderate-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) and linked to poor social outcomes. We examine whether emotion recognition deficits extend to facial expressions depicted by emoji.

Methods

Fifty-one individuals with moderate-severe TBI (25 female) and fifty-one neurotypical peers (26 female) viewed photos of human faces and emoji. Participants selected the best-fitting label from a set of basic emotions (anger, disgust, fear, sadness, neutral, surprise, happy) or social emotions (embarrassed, remorseful, anxious, neutral, flirting, confident, proud).

Results

We analyzed the likelihood of correctly labeling an emotion by group (neurotypical, TBI), stimulus condition (basic faces, basic emoji, social emoji), se

SUBMITTER: Clough S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10175112 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature