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Visual Scanning in the Recognition of Facial Affect in Traumatic Brain Injury
We investigated the visual scanning strategy employed by a group of individuals with a severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) during a facial affect recognition task. Four males with a severe TBI were matched for age and gender with 4 healthy controls. Eye movements were recorded while pictures of stat...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5393669/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/ic250 |
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author | Vassallo, Suzane Douglas, Jacinta White, Emma |
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description | We investigated the visual scanning strategy employed by a group of individuals with a severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) during a facial affect recognition task. Four males with a severe TBI were matched for age and gender with 4 healthy controls. Eye movements were recorded while pictures of static emotional faces were viewed (i.e., sad, happy, angry, disgusted, anxious, surprised). Groups were compared with respect to accuracy in labelling the emotional facial expression, reaction time, number and duration of fixations to internal (i.e., eyes + nose + mouth), and external (i.e., all remaining) regions of the stimulus. TBI participants demonstrated significantly reduced accuracy and increased latency in facial affect recognition. Further, they demonstrated no significant difference in the number or duration of fixations to internal versus external facial regions. Control participants, however, fixated more frequently and for longer periods of time upon internal facial features. Impaired visual scanning can contribute to inaccurate interpretation of facial expression and this can disrupt interpersonal communication. The scanning strategy demonstrated by our TBI group appears more ‘widespread’ than that employed by their normal counterparts. Further work is required to elucidate the nature of the scanning strategy used and its potential variance in TBI. |
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spelling | pubmed-53936692017-04-24 Visual Scanning in the Recognition of Facial Affect in Traumatic Brain Injury Vassallo, Suzane Douglas, Jacinta White, Emma Iperception Article We investigated the visual scanning strategy employed by a group of individuals with a severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) during a facial affect recognition task. Four males with a severe TBI were matched for age and gender with 4 healthy controls. Eye movements were recorded while pictures of static emotional faces were viewed (i.e., sad, happy, angry, disgusted, anxious, surprised). Groups were compared with respect to accuracy in labelling the emotional facial expression, reaction time, number and duration of fixations to internal (i.e., eyes + nose + mouth), and external (i.e., all remaining) regions of the stimulus. TBI participants demonstrated significantly reduced accuracy and increased latency in facial affect recognition. Further, they demonstrated no significant difference in the number or duration of fixations to internal versus external facial regions. Control participants, however, fixated more frequently and for longer periods of time upon internal facial features. Impaired visual scanning can contribute to inaccurate interpretation of facial expression and this can disrupt interpersonal communication. The scanning strategy demonstrated by our TBI group appears more ‘widespread’ than that employed by their normal counterparts. Further work is required to elucidate the nature of the scanning strategy used and its potential variance in TBI. SAGE Publications 2011-05-01 2011-05 /pmc/articles/PMC5393669/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/ic250 Text en © 2011 SAGE Publications Ltd. Manuscript content on this site is licensed under Creative Commons Licenses http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work as published without adaptation or alteration, without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (http://www.uk.sagepub.com/aboutus/openaccess.htm). |
spellingShingle | Article Vassallo, Suzane Douglas, Jacinta White, Emma Visual Scanning in the Recognition of Facial Affect in Traumatic Brain Injury |
title | Visual Scanning in the Recognition of Facial Affect in Traumatic Brain Injury |
title_full | Visual Scanning in the Recognition of Facial Affect in Traumatic Brain Injury |
title_fullStr | Visual Scanning in the Recognition of Facial Affect in Traumatic Brain Injury |
title_full_unstemmed | Visual Scanning in the Recognition of Facial Affect in Traumatic Brain Injury |
title_short | Visual Scanning in the Recognition of Facial Affect in Traumatic Brain Injury |
title_sort | visual scanning in the recognition of facial affect in traumatic brain injury |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5393669/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/ic250 |
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