Measuring emotion perception following traumatic brain injury: The Complex Audio Visual Emotion Assessment Task (CAVEAT)

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Rosenberg ◽  
Skye McDonald ◽  
Jacob Rosenberg ◽  
Reginald Frederick Westbrook
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Brain Injury ◽  
Brain Injury ◽  
Emotion Perception ◽  
Assessment Task ◽  
Emotion Assessment

Emotion Perception and Alexithymia in People With Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: One Disorder or Two? A Preliminary Investigation

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 165-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Skye McDonald ◽  
Julia Rosenfeld ◽  
Julie D. Henry ◽  
Leanne Togher ◽  
Robyn Tate ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Brain Injury ◽  
Brain Injury ◽  
Severe Traumatic Brain Injury ◽  
Brain Injuries ◽  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Emotion Perception ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Cross Sectional

AbstractPrimary objective:Recent research studies attest to the presence of deficits in emotion perception following severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). Additionally, a growing number of studies report significant levels of alexithymia (disorder of emotional cognition) following TBI. This research aimed to examine the relation between the two, while assessing the influence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).Design:Cross-sectional study examining levels of alexithymia, emotion perception disorders and PTSD and their association, in 20 people with severe, chronic TBI and 20 adults without brain injuries.Methods:Participants were assessed on the Toronto Alexithymia — 20 Scale, the Posttraumatic Diagnostic Scale and on two emotion perception tasks: matching and labelling of photos depicting the 6 basic emotions.Results:The group with TBI were impaired relative to controls when matching facial expressions. Their performance on ‘fear’ was especially poor. Performance on labelling was similar in pattern, although failed to reach significance. There was no association between poor performance on fear, or other negative expressions, and either PTSD or alexithymia symptoms in the TBI group.Conclusions:Alexithymia, as assessed by the TAS-20, taps a constellation of difficulties that do not appear to include difficulties with emotion perception in people with traumatic brain injuries.

scholarly journals Emotion Recognition in Low-Spatial Frequencies Is Partly Preserved following Traumatic Brain Injury

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessia Celeghin ◽  
Valentina Galetto ◽  
Marco Tamietto ◽  
Marina Zettin
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Brain Injury ◽  
Brain Injury ◽  
Spatial Frequency ◽  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Diffuse Axonal Injury ◽  
Reaction Times ◽  
Emotion Perception ◽  
High Spatial Frequency ◽  
Healthy Controls ◽  
Spatial Frequencies

After a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), emotion recognition is typically impaired. This is commonly attributed to widespread multifocal damage in cortical areas involved in emotion processing as well as to Diffuse Axonal Injury (DAI). However, current models suggest that emotional recognition is subserved by a distributed network cantered on the amygdala, which involves both cortical and subcortical structures. While the cortical system is preferentially tuned to process high spatial frequencies, the subcortical networks are more sensitive to low-spatial frequencies. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether emotion perception from low-spatial frequencies underpinning the subcortical system is relatively preserved in TBI patients. We tested a group of 14 subjects with severe TBI and 20 matched healthy controls. Each participant was asked to recognize the emotion expressed by each stimulus that consisted of happy and fearful faces, filtered for their low and high spatial frequencies components. Results in TBI patients’ performances showed that low-spatial frequency expressions were recognized with higher accuracy and faster reaction times when compared to high spatial frequency stimuli. On the contrary, healthy controls did not show any effect in the two conditions, neither for response accuracy nor for reaction times. The outcomes of this study indicate that emotion perception from low-spatial frequencies is relatively preserved in TBI, thereby suggesting spare of functioning in the subcortical system in mediating emotion recognition.

Syllabic Diadochokinesis in Adults With and Without Traumatic Brain Injury: Severity, Stability, and Speech Considerations

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Nancy Pearl Solomon ◽  
Douglas S. Brungart ◽  
Jessica R. Wince ◽  
Jordan C. Abramowitz ◽  
Megan M. Eitel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Brain Injury ◽  
Brain Injury ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Injury Severity ◽  
Rare Complication ◽  
Speech Disorders ◽  
Service Members ◽  
Significant Group ◽  
Assessment Task ◽  
Over Time

Purpose Syllabic diadochokinesis (DDK) is a standard assessment task for motor speech disorders. This study aimed to compare rate and regularity of DDK according to the presence or absence of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and severity of TBI, examine the stability of DDK over time, and explore associations between DDK and extemporaneous speech. Method Military service members and veterans were categorized into three groups: no history of TBI (control), uncomplicated mild TBI (mTBI), and moderate through severe (including penetrating) TBI (msTBI). Participants produced rapid alternating-motion and sequential-motion syllable repetitions during one or two sessions. A semi-automated protocol determined syllabic rate and regularity. Perceptual ratings of selected participants' connected speech samples were compared to DDK results. Results Two hundred sixty-three service members and veterans provided data from one session and 69 from two sessions separated by 1.9 years ( SD = 1.0). DDKs were significantly slower overall for mTBI and msTBI groups compared to controls. Regularity of productions did not differ significantly across groups. A significant Group × Task interaction revealed that the msTBI group produced sequential-motion syllable repetitions but not alternating-motion repetitions with greater regularity, whereas the opposite occurred for control and mTBI groups. DDK results did not differ significantly between sessions. Perceptual speech analysis for 30 participants, including 20 with atypical or questionable DDK performance, revealed two participants with mildly abnormal speech. Conclusions Overall, DDK productions are slower than normal in adults with moderate, severe, and penetrating TBI and are stable over time. Regularity of productions did not differentiate groups, although this result differed according to task. There were surprisingly few people identified with disordered speech, making comparisons to DDK data tenuous, and indicating that dysarthria is a rare complication in a population of adults with mostly uncomplicated mTBI who are not selected from referrals to a speech-language pathology clinic.

Traumatic Brain Injury and Prospective Memory in a Virtual Shopping Trip Task: Does It Matter Who Generates the Prospective Memory Target?

2009 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glynda J. Kinsella ◽  
Ben Ong ◽  
Jodie Tucker
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Brain Injury ◽  
Brain Injury ◽  
Prospective Memory ◽  
Memory Performance ◽  
Generation Effect ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Retrospective Memory ◽  
Impact Performance ◽  
Assessment Task ◽  
Virtual Shopping

AbstractThe current study aimed to investigate prospective memory in traumatic brain injury by using a laboratory-based but naturalistic style assessment task. The objective was to determine if performance differed when the prospective memory targets were self-generated or experimenter-generated (a generation effect). Sixteen people who had sustained a traumatic brain injury and had received rehabilitation were compared to 16 healthy age-matched control participants on a naturalistic virtual measure of shopping and prospective memory. Results demonstrated that the traumatic brain group was less accurate in overall prospective remembering performance than the control group but there was a lack of difference between the self- and experimenter-generated prospective memory targets for both participant groups. Both retrospective memory and executive attention of working memory were associated with prospective memory performance in the naturalistic task. The findings of the study suggest that the generation effect commonly observed in retrospective memory performance may not impact performance in prospective memory.

The influence of attention and arousal on emotion perception in adults with severe traumatic brain injury

2011 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
pp. 124-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Skye McDonald ◽  
Jacqueline Rushby ◽  
Sophie Li ◽  
Arielle de Sousa ◽  
Aneta Dimoska ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Brain Injury ◽  
Brain Injury ◽  
Severe Traumatic Brain Injury ◽  
Emotion Perception

scholarly journals Visual strategies underpinning social cognition in traumatic brain injury

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Leanne Greene
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Brain Injury ◽  
Social Cognition ◽  
Brain Injury ◽  
Visual Processing ◽  
Emotion Perception ◽  
Facial Affect ◽  
Affect Recognition ◽  
Facial Affect Recognition ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Visual Strategies

Impairments in social cognition after traumatic brain injury (TBI) are well documented but poorly understood (McDonald, 2013). Deficits in emotion perception, particularly facial affect recognition, are frequently reported in the literature (Babbage et al., 2011; Knox & Douglas, 2009), as well as mentalizing impairments and difficulty in understanding sincere and sarcastic exchanges (Channon, Pellijeff & Rule, 2005). To fully understand social impairments, both low-level and high-level processes must be explored. Few studies have focused on low-level perceptual processes in regards to facial affect recognition after TBI, and those that do typically use static social stimuli which lack ecological validity (Alves, 2013). This thesis employed eyetracking technology to explore the visual strategies underpinning the processing of contemporary static and dynamic social cognition tasks in a group of 18 TBI participants and 18 age, gender and education matched controls. The group affected by TBI scored significantly lower on the Movie for the Assessment of Social Cognition (MASC; Dziobek, et al., 2006), the Amsterdam Dynamic Facial Expression Set (ADFES; van der Schalk, Hawk, Fischer & Doosje, 2009), and The Assessment of Social Inference Test (McDonald et al., 2003). These findings suggest that, across a range of reliable assessments, individuals with TBI displayed significant social cognition deficits, including emotion perception and theory of mind, thus presenting strong evidence that social cognition is altered post-TBI. Impairments were not related to low-level visual processing as measured through eye-tracking metrics. This important insight suggests that social cognition changes post-TBI is likely associated with impairments in higher-level cognitive functioning. Interestingly, the group with TBI did display some aberrant fixation patterns in response to one static and one dynamic task but gaze patterns were similar between the groups on the remaining tasks. These non-uniform results warrant further exploration of low-level alterations post-TBI. Findings are discussed in reference to academic and clinical implications.

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