Emotion recognition from facial expressions: a normative study of the Ekman 60-Faces Test in the Italian population
| Autor: | Chiara Cerami, Stefano F. Cappa, Chiara Crespi, M Arpone, Nicola Canessa, Alessandra Marcone, Alessandra Dodich, Sabrina Realmuto |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Dodich, A, Cerami, C, Canessa, N, Crespi, C, Marcone, A, Arpone, M, Realmuto, S, Cappa, SF |
| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Male media_common.quotation_subject Emotion classification Emotions Context (language use) Dermatology Anger Neuropsychological Tests Developmental psychology Young Adult Social cognition Reference Values Humans media_common Aged Facial expression General Medicine Middle Aged Ekman 60-faces test Disgust Sadness Facial Expression Psychiatry and Mental health Italy Pattern Recognition Visual Face Normative Educational Status Female Neurology (clinical) Emotion recognition Psychology Mental Status Schedule Photic Stimulation |
| Zdroj: | Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology. 35(7) |
| ISSN: | 1590-3478 |
| Popis: | The Ekman 60-Faces (EK-60F) Test is a well-known neuropsychological tool assessing emotion recognition from facial expressions. It is the most employed task for research purposes in psychiatric and neurological disorders, including neurodegenerative diseases, such as the behavioral variant of Frontotemporal Dementia (bvFTD). Despite its remarkable usefulness in the social cognition research field, to date, there are still no normative data for the Italian population, thus limiting its application in a clinical context. In this study, we report procedures and normative data for the Italian version of the test. A hundred and thirty-two healthy Italian participants aged between 20 and 79 years with at least 5 years of education were recruited on a voluntary basis. They were administered the EK-60F Test from the Ekman and Friesen series of Pictures of Facial Affect after a preliminary semantic recognition test of the six basic emotions (i.e., anger, fear, sadness, happiness, disgust, surprise). Data were analyzed according to the Capitani procedure [1]. The regression analysis revealed significant effects of demographic variables, with younger, more educated, female subjects showing higher scores. Normative data were then applied to a sample of 15 bvFTD patients which showed global impaired performance in the task, consistently with the clinical condition. We provided EK-60F Test normative data for the Italian population allowing the investigation of global emotion recognition ability as well as selective impairment of basic emotions recognition, both for clinical and research purposes. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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