Empathy, Attention and Reasoning: The role of automatic and controlled processing in emotion recognition following traumatic brain injury

移情、注意和推理：脑创伤后情绪识别中自动和受控加工的作用。脑外伤的成年人很难识别情绪的面部表情，但对他们对情绪表达的心理生理反应，他们对面部特征的视觉搜索模式的有效性，或者他们在多大程度上参与有意识的加工和解决问题以帮助解释，人们知之甚少。与照片相比，它们识别动态情绪展示的能力也不为人所知。本项目使用静态和动态描绘来研究这些方面的每一个。该项目将为面部加工的神经心理学理论提供信息，测试先前研究的生态有效性，并提高对脑外伤后心理社会缺陷及其治疗的理解。

Empathy, Attention and Reasoning: The role of automatic and controlled processing in emotion recognition following traumatic brain injury. Traumatically brain injured adults have difficulty identifying emotional facial expressions but little is known regarding their psychophysiological reactions to emotional expression, the efficacy of their visual search patterns of facial features or the extent to which they engage conscious processing and problem solving to assist interpretation. Nor is anything known about their ability to recognise dynamic emotional displays compared to photographs. This project examines each of these facets using static and dynamic portrayals. The project will inform neuropsychological theories of facial processing, test the ecological validity of previous research and improve understanding of psychosocial deficits after TBI and their treatment.