Decoupling of spontaneous facial mimicry from emotion recognition in schizophrenia
| Autor: | Lénie Torregrossa, Esube Bekele, Megan Ichinose, Heathman Nichols, Sohee Park, Dayi Bian, Nilanjan Sarkar, Laura Hieber Adery, Joshua Wade |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Male Emotions Article 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine medicine Expressed emotion Humans Interpersonal Relations Emotion recognition Biological Psychiatry Facial expression Social perception Mood Disorders Middle Aged 030227 psychiatry Psychiatry and Mental health Facial muscles medicine.anatomical_structure Social Perception Facial mimicry Case-Control Studies Mimicry Schizophrenia Blunted Affect Female Schizophrenic Psychology Psychology Neuroscience Facial Recognition 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Psychiatry Res |
| ISSN: | 1872-7123 |
| Popis: | Past research indicates that spontaneous mimicry facilitates the decoding of others' emotions, leading to enhanced social perception and interpersonal rapport. Individuals with schizophrenia (SZ) show consistent deficits in emotion recognition and expression associated with poor social functioning. Given the prominence of blunted affect in schizophrenia, it is possible that spontaneous facial mimicry may also be impaired. However, studies assessing automatic facial mimicry in schizophrenia have yielded mixed results. It is therefore unknown whether emotion recognition deficits and impaired automatic facial mimicry are related in schizophrenia. SZ and demographically matched controls (CO) participated in a dynamic emotion recognition task. Electromyographic activity in muscles responsible for producing facial expressions was recorded during the task to assess spontaneous facial mimicry. SZ showed deficits in emotion identification compared to CO, but there was no group difference in the predictive power of spontaneous facial mimicry for avatar's expressed emotion. In CO, facial mimicry supported accurate emotion recognition, but it was decoupled in SZ. The finding of intact facial mimicry in SZ bears important clinical implications. For instance, clinicians might be able to improve the social functioning of patients by teaching them to pair specific patterns of facial muscle activation with distinct emotion words. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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