Emotion recognition deficits associated with ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions are improved by gaze manipulation.

ABSTRACT: Facial emotion recognition is a critical aspect of human communication. Since abnormalities in facial emotion recognition are associated with social and affective impairment in a variety of psychiatric and neurological conditions, identifying the neural substrates and psychological processes underlying facial emotion recognition will help advance basic and translational research on social-affective function. Ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) has recently been implicated in deploying visual attention to the eyes of emotional faces, although there is mixed evidence regarding the importance of this brain region for recognition accuracy. In the present study of neurological patients with vmPFC damage, we used an emotion recognition task with morphed facial expressions of varying intensiti

SUBMITTER: Wolf RC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6167016 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature