Lateralization of facial emotional expression in schizophrenic and depressed patients.
Lateralization of facial emotional expression in schizophrenic and depressed patients.
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精神分裂症和抑郁症患者面部情绪表达的偏侧化。
DOI:
10.1176/jnp.11.3.370
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发表时间:
1999
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Welkowitz,J
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作者:
Yecker,S;Borod,JC;Brozgold,A;Martin,C;Alpert,M;Welkowitz,J
This study examined facial emotional expressions produced by schizophrenic (SZ), unipolar depressed (UD), and normal control (NC) right-handed adults. Hypotheses regarding right-hemisphere activation in UD and suppression in SZ were addressed, as well as hypotheses about emotion and laterality. Subjects were videotaped while posing positive, neutral, and negative facial expressions to verbal command and to visual imitation. Naive judges rated hemiface stimuli for intensity in original and mirror-reversed orientations. Overall, SZs produced expressions with diminished intensity relative to UDs and NCs. Across subject groups, expressions were more intense in the visual than the verbal condition. In general, approach expressions were produced with greater right-hemiface intensity, and withdrawal expressions with greater left-hemiface intensity. UDs showed more pronounced facial asymmetry than SZs or NCs. An unanticipated right-hemispace perceptual bias among the judges may reflect the analytical, detailed rating procedure used and the presumably greater reliance by the judges on left- than right-hemisphere strategies.