中国神经再生研究(英文版)

中国神经再生研究(英文版) ›› 2012, Vol. 7 ›› Issue (2): 101-108.

• 原著:脑损伤修复保护与再生 • 上一篇    下一篇

Changes in social emotion recognition following traumatic frontal lobe injury

  

  • 收稿日期:2011-08-17 修回日期:2011-11-02 出版日期:2012-01-15 发布日期:2012-01-15

Changes in social emotion recognition following traumatic frontal lobe injury

Ana Teresa Martins1, Luis Faísca1, Francisco Esteves2, Cláudia Simão2, Mariline Gomes Justo2, Angélica Muresan1, Alexandra Reis1   

  1. 1 Department of Psychology, University of Algarve, 8000-000 Faro, Algarve, Portugal
    2 Lisbon Universitary Institute, CIS/ISCTE – IUL, Lisbon, Portugal
  • Received:2011-08-17 Revised:2011-11-02 Online:2012-01-15 Published:2012-01-15
  • Contact: Ana Teresa Martins, Department of Psychology, University of Algarve, 8000-000 Faro, Algarve, Portugal atmartins@ualg.pt
  • About author:Ana Teresa Martins☆, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Algarve, 8000-000 Faro, Algarve, Portugal

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Abstract:

Changes in social and emotional behaviour have been consistently observed in patients with traumatic brain injury. These changes are associated with emotion recognition deficits which represent one of the major barriers to a successful familiar and social reintegration. In the present study, 32 patients with traumatic brain injury, involving the frontal lobe, and 41 age- and education-matched healthy controls were analyzed. A Go/No-Go task was designed, where each participant had to recognize faces representing three social emotions (arrogance, guilt and jealousy). Results suggested that ability to recognize two social emotions (arrogance and jealousy) was significantly reduced in patients with traumatic brain injury, indicating frontal lesion can reduce emotion recognition ability. In addition, the analysis of the results for hemispheric lesion location (right, left or bilateral) suggested the bilateral lesion sub-group showed a lower accuracy on all social emotions.

Key words: traumatic brain injury, facial emotion recognition, social emotions