Feedback training induces a bias for detecting happiness or fear in facial expressions that generalises to a novel task.

ABSTRACT: Many psychological disorders are characterised by insensitivities or biases in the processing of subtle facial expressions of emotion. Training using expression morph sequences which vary the intensity of expressions may be able to address such deficits. In the current study participants were shown expressions from either happy or fearful intensity morph sequences, and trained to detect the target emotion (e.g., happy in the happy sequence) as being present in low intensity expressions. Training transfer was tested using a six alternative forced choice emotion labelling task with varying intensity expressions, which participants completed before and after training. Training increased false alarms for the target emotion in the transfer task. Hit rate for the target emotion did not increase

SUBMITTER: Griffiths S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4693450 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature