Different aspects of facial affect recognition impairment following traumatic brain injury: The role of perceptual and interpretative abilities.

ABSTRACT: It is well established that many individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) are impaired at facial affect recognition, yet little is known about the mechanisms underlying such deficits. In particular, little work has examined whether the breakdown of facial affect recognition abilities occurs at the perceptual level (e.g., recognizing a smile) or at the verbal categorization stage (e.g., assigning the label "happy" to a smiling face). The aim of the current study was to investigate the integrity of these two distinct facial affect recognition subskills in a sample of 38 individuals with moderate-to-severe TBI and 24 demographically matched healthy individuals. Participants were administered an affect matching (perceptual skills) and an affect labeling (verbal categorization skills) task

SUBMITTER: Rigon A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6050132 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature