Brain Injury Research Group, Department of Psychology, School of Human Sciences, Swansea University, Swansea, UK.
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol. 2010 Feb;32(2):113-22. doi: 10.1080/13803390902806543. Epub 2009 May 29.
The current study examined emotion recognition following traumatic brain injury (TBI) and examined whether performance differed according to the affective valence and type of media presentation of the stimuli. A total of 64 patients with TBI and matched controls completed the Emotion Evaluation Test (EET) and Ekman 60 Faces Test (E-60-FT). Patients with TBI also completed measures of information processing and verbal ability. Results revealed that the TBI group were significantly impaired compared to controls when recognizing emotion on the EET and E-60-FT. A significant main effect of valence was found in both groups, with poor recognition of negative emotions. However, the difference between the recognition of positive and negative emotions was larger in the TBI group. The TBI group were also more accurate recognizing emotion displayed in audiovisual media (EET) than that displayed in still media (E-60-FT). No significant relationship was obtained between emotion recognition tasks and information-processing speed. A significant positive relationship was found between the E-60-FT and one measure of verbal ability. These findings support models of emotion that specify separate neurological pathways for certain emotions and different media and confirm that patients with TBI are vulnerable to experiencing emotion recognition difficulties.
本研究考察了创伤性脑损伤（TBI）后的情绪识别，并探讨了情绪识别是否因刺激的情感效价和媒体呈现类型而有所不同。共有 64 名 TBI 患者和匹配的对照组完成了情绪评估测试（EET）和埃克曼 60 张面孔测试（E-60-FT）。TBI 患者还完成了信息处理和语言能力的测量。结果显示，与对照组相比，TBI 组在 EET 和 E-60-FT 上识别情绪时明显受损。在两个组中都发现了效价的显著主效应，对负性情绪的识别较差。然而，在 TBI 组中，对正性和负性情绪的识别差异更大。与识别静态媒体（E-60-FT）相比，TBI 组在识别视听媒体（EET）中显示的情绪时更准确。情绪识别任务与信息处理速度之间未获得显著关系。E-60-FT 与语言能力的一个测量指标之间存在显著的正相关。这些发现支持了特定情绪和不同媒体具有独立神经通路的情绪模型，并证实 TBI 患者易出现情绪识别困难。
