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Emotion Perception Correlates In Moderate And Severe Traumatic Brain Injury, Rachel Keelan
Emotion Perception Correlates In Moderate And Severe Traumatic Brain Injury, Rachel Keelan
Wayne State University Dissertations
Introduction: Studies have demonstrated that individuals with TBI experience impairments in emotion perception accuracy in facial and auditory modalities but does not yet understand patterns of emotion perception and their relation to neurocognitive performance. The current study assessed why emotion perception deficits occur via psychological and cognitive relationships as well as patterns of emotion misattributions.
Methods: 50 adults with a bona-fide moderate or severe traumatic brain injury and 39 healthy comparison adults were included in the study. Eligible participants completed a battery of paper-and-pencil and computerized neuropsychological measures, including three tasks of emotion perception, and psychological questionnaires.
Results: The TBI …