Recognition of emotions conveyed by facial expression and body postures in myotonic dystrophy (DM)

Autor: Carlo Semenza, Sabrina Lenzoni, Annalisa Botta, Virginia Bozzoni, Beatrice de Gelder, Elena Pegoraro, Alexandra Wennberg, Francesca Burgio
Přispěvatelé: Emotion, RS: FPN CN 10
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
musculoskeletal diseases
medicine.medical_specialty
NORMATIVE DATA
Cognitive Neuroscience
Emotions
Posture
Myotonic dystrophy
PARTICIPATION
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Audiology
Neuropsychological Tests
Affect (psychology)
050105 experimental psychology
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
medicine
Humans
TYPE-1 DM1
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Effects of sleep deprivation on cognitive performance
Embodied cognition
Emotion recognition
Neuromuscular diseases
Facial Expression
Myotonic Dystrophy
Association (psychology)
Facial expression
PERSONALITY
05 social sciences
Neuropsychology
Cognition
EXPANSION
MIMICRY
medicine.disease
COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT
DYSFUNCTION
STATE
Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
Settore MED/03
Psychology
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Zdroj: Cortex, 127, 58-66. Elsevier Masson
ISSN: 0010-9452
Popis: INTRODUCTION: Neuromuscular diseases may be of neuropsychological interest insofar as they may affect representations based on embodied cognition theories. Previous studies have shown impaired ability to recognize facial emotions and an association between facial emotion recognition and visuospatial abilities in myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) patients. Here we examined the ability of both DM1 and DM2 patients to recognize emotions expressed by body postures and its relation, and their association with cognitive performance.METHODS: Participants included 34 DM1 patients, 8 DM2 patients, and 24 healthy control subjects. Emotional recognition ability was assessed through two computerized matching tasks (face and bodies). A neuropsychological battery was used to measure cognition in three domains and global cognition. We used univariate and adjusted linear regression models to investigate the association between cognition and emotion recognition performance.RESULTS: DM patients (combined DM1 and DM2) performed worse on emotional facial expression (p = .006) and body posture (p = .004) accuracy measures than healthy controls. In linear regression models, DM patients' facial expression accuracy was associated with executive function (p = .013) and visuospatial (p < .001) z-scores. Body posture accuracy was associated with visuospatial (p = .001) and memory (p = .012) z-scores. There were no associations among controls or between cognition and reaction time.DISCUSSION: These findings suggest that impaired emotional recognition among DM patients is also extended to emotions conveyed by body postures. Consistent with embodied cognition theories, people affected in their body and its movement may have impaired sensorimotor representation in ways that have yet to be fully understood.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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