scholarly journals Computerised working memory-based cognitive remediation therapy does not affect Reading the Mind in The Eyes test performance or neural activity during a Facial Emotion Recognition test in psychosis

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 1691-1705 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Mothersill ◽  
Rachael Dillon ◽  
April Hargreaves ◽  
Marco Castorina ◽  
Emilia Furey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Recognition Test ◽  
Neural Activity ◽  
Test Performance ◽  
Cognitive Remediation ◽  
Facial Emotion Recognition ◽  
Facial Emotion ◽  
Cognitive Remediation Therapy ◽  
The Mind

scholarly journals Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test: Relationship with Neurocognition and Facial Emotion Recognition in Non-Clinical Youths

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (8) ◽  
pp. 835-839
Author(s):  
Eunchong Seo ◽  
Se Jun Koo ◽  
Ye Jin Kim ◽  
Jee Eun Min ◽  
Hye Yoon Park ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Bootstrap Method ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
Facial Emotion Recognition ◽  
Facial Emotion ◽  
Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Reasoning By Analogy

Objective The Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET) is a common measure of the Theory of Mind. Previous studies found a correlation between RMET performance and neurocognition, especially reasoning by analogy; however, the nature of this relationship remains unclear. Additionally, neurocognition was shown to play a significant role in facial emotion recognition. This study is planned to examine the nature of relationship between neurocognition and RMET performance, as well as the mediating role of facial emotion recognition.Methods One hundred fifty non-clinical youths performed the RMET. Reasoning by analogy was tested by Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices (SPM) and facial emotion recognition was assessed by the Korean Facial Expressions of Emotion (KOFEE) test. The percentile bootstrap method was used to calculate the parameters of the mediating effects of facial emotion recognition on the relationship between SPM and RMET scores.Results SPM scores and KOFEE scores were both statistically significant predictors of RMET scores. KOFEE scores were found to partially mediate the impact of SPM scores on RMET scores.Conclusion These findings suggested that facial emotion recognition partially mediated the relationship between reasoning by analogy and social cognition. This study highlights the need for further research for individuals with serious mental illnesses.

Sensitivity and specificity of a facial emotion recognition test in classifying patients with schizophrenia

2020 ◽  
Vol 275 ◽  
pp. 224-229
Author(s):  
Shih-Chieh Lee ◽  
Chen-Chung Liu ◽  
Chian-Jue Kuo ◽  
I-Ping Hsueh ◽  
Ching-Lin Hsieh
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Sensitivity And Specificity ◽  
Recognition Test ◽  
Facial Emotion Recognition ◽  
Facial Emotion

Relationship between olfactory function and social cognition in euthymic bipolar patients

CNS Spectrums ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillermo Lahera ◽  
Salvador Ruiz-Murugarren ◽  
Alberto Fernández-Liria ◽  
Jerónimo Saiz-Ruiz ◽  
Benjamin E. Buck ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bipolar Disorder ◽  
Social Cognition ◽  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Recognition Test ◽  
Olfactory Function ◽  
Facial Emotion Recognition ◽  
Facial Emotion ◽  
Olfactory Identification ◽  
Olfactory Ability ◽  
Bipolar Patients

Objective/IntroductionThere is a close functional and neuroanatomical relationship between olfactory ability and emotional processing. The present study seeks to explore the association between olfactory ability and social cognition, especially facial emotion perception, in euthymic bipolar patients.MethodsThirty-nine euthymic outpatients meeting DSM-IV-TR criteria for bipolar disorder and 40 healthy volunteers matched on socio-demographic criteria were recruited. Both groups were assessed at one time point with the University of Pennsylvania Smell Identification Test (UPSIT), the Emotion Recognition Test, and The Faux Pas Recognition Test, as well as measures of general cognition and functioning.ResultsThe bipolar patients showed a significant impairment in olfactory identification (UPSIT) and social cognition measures compared to healthy controls. Analyses revealed significant relationships between olfactory identification and facial emotion recognition, theory of mind, general cognition, and a trend-level relationship with functioning. Controlling for age and cigarettes smoked, relationships remained significant between olfactory function and facial emotion recognition.ConclusionThere is a deficit of olfactory identification in euthymic patients with bipolar disorder that is correlated with a deficit in both verbal and non-verbal measures of social cognition.

scholarly journals Your Face Mirrors Your Deepest Beliefs—Predicting Personality and Morals through Facial Emotion Recognition

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Peter A. Gloor ◽  
Andrea Fronzetti Colladon ◽  
Erkin Altuntas ◽  
Cengiz Cetinkaya ◽  
Maximilian F. Kaiser ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Emotional Response ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Facial Emotion Recognition ◽  
Facial Emotion ◽  
Moral Foundations ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
The Mind

Can we really “read the mind in the eyes”? Moreover, can AI assist us in this task? This paper answers these two questions by introducing a machine learning system that predicts personality characteristics of individuals on the basis of their face. It does so by tracking the emotional response of the individual’s face through facial emotion recognition (FER) while watching a series of 15 short videos of different genres. To calibrate the system, we invited 85 people to watch the videos, while their emotional responses were analyzed through their facial expression. At the same time, these individuals also took four well-validated surveys of personality characteristics and moral values: the revised NEO FFI personality inventory, the Haidt moral foundations test, the Schwartz personal value system, and the domain-specific risk-taking scale (DOSPERT). We found that personality characteristics and moral values of an individual can be predicted through their emotional response to the videos as shown in their face, with an accuracy of up to 86% using gradient-boosted trees. We also found that different personality characteristics are better predicted by different videos, in other words, there is no single video that will provide accurate predictions for all personality characteristics, but it is the response to the mix of different videos that allows for accurate prediction.

scholarly journals Psychosis-like experiences and cognition in young adults: an observational and Mendelian randomisation study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Skirrow ◽  
Steph Suddell ◽  
Liam Mahedy ◽  
Ian S Penton-Voak ◽  
Marcus Munafo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Cognitive Function ◽  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Response Inhibition ◽  
Facial Emotion Recognition ◽  
Facial Emotion ◽  
Mendelian Randomisation ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Prospective Analyses

Background: Psychosis-like experiences (PLEs) are common and associated with mental health problems and poorer cognitive function. There is limited longitudinal research examining associations between cognition and PLEs in early adulthood. Aims: We investigated the association of PLEs with different domains of cognitive function, using cross-sectional and longitudinal observational, and Mendelian randomisation (MR) analyses. Method: Participants from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) completed tasks of working memory at age 18 and 24, and tasks of response inhibition and facial emotion recognition at age 24. Semi-structured interviews at age 18 and 24 established presence of PLEs (none vs. suspected/definite). Cross-sectional and prospective regression analysis tested associations between PLEs and cognition (N=3,087 imputed sample). MR examined causal pathways between schizophrenia liability and cognition. Results: The fully adjusted models indicated that PLEs were associated with poorer working memory performance (cross-sectional analyses: b=-0.18, 95% CI -0.27 to -0.08, p<0.001; prospective analyses: b=-0.18, 95% CI -0.31 to -0.06, p<0.01). A similar pattern of results was found for PLEs and response inhibition (cross-sectional analyses: b=7.29, 95% CI 0.96 to 13.62, p=0.02; prospective analyses: b=10.29, 95% CI 1.78 to 18.97, p=0.02). We did not find evidence to suggest an association between PLEs and facial emotion recognition. MR analyses were underpowered and did not support observational results. Conclusions: In young adults, PLEs are associated with poorer concurrent and future working memory and response inhibition. Better powered genetically informed studies are needed to determine if these associations are causal.

Facial Emotion Recognition Ability in Psychiatrists, Psychologist and Psychological Counselors

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. S157-S157
Author(s):  
M. Dalkiran ◽  
E. Yuksek ◽  
O. Karamustafalioglu
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Recognition Test ◽  
Facial Emotion Recognition ◽  
Facial Emotion ◽  
Specific Training ◽  
Emotional Cues ◽  
Demographic Questionnaire ◽  
Recognition Ability ◽  
Emotion Recognition Ability

ObjectivesAlthough, emotional cues like facial emotion expressions seem to be important in social interaction, there is limited specific training about emotional cues for psychology professions.AimsHere, we aimed to evaluate psychologist’, psychological counselors’ and psychiatrists’ ability of facial emotion recognition and compare these groups.MethodsOne hundred and forty-one master degree students of clinical psychology and 105 psychiatrists who identified themselves as psychopharmacologists were asked to perform facial emotion recognition test after filling out socio-demographic questionnaire. The facial emotion recognition test was constructed by using a set of photographs (happy, sad, fearful, angry, surprised, disgusted, and neutral faces) from Ekman and Friesen's.ResultsPsychologists were significantly better in recognizing sad facial emotion than psychopharmacologists (6.23 ± 1.08 vs 5.80 ± 1.34 and P = 0.041). Psychological counselors were significantly better in recognizing sad facial emotion than psychopharmacologists (6.24 ± 1.01 vs 5.80 ± 1.34 and P = 0.054). Psychologists were significantly better in recognizing angry facial emotion than psychopharmacologists (6.54 ± 0.73 vs 6.08 ± 1.06 and P = 0.002). Psychological counselors were significantly better in recognizing angry facial emotion than psychopharmacologists (6.48 ± 0.73 vs 6.08 ± 1.06 and P = 0.14).ConclusionWe have revealed that the pyschologist and psychological counselors were more accurate in recognizing sad and angry facial emotions than psychopharmacologists. We considered that more accurate recognition of emotional cues may have important influences on patient doctor relationship. It would be valuable to investigate how these differences or training the ability of facial emotion recognition would affect the quality of patient–clinician interaction.

scholarly journals Reading the mind in cartoon eyes: Comparing human versus cartoon emotion recognition in those with high and low levels of autistic traits

2021 ◽  
pp. 003329412098813
Author(s):  
Gray Atherton ◽  
Liam Cross
Keyword(s):  
Theory Of Mind ◽  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Perspective Taking ◽  
Autistic Traits ◽  
Facial Emotion Recognition ◽  
Facial Emotion ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
The Mind ◽  
High Degree

People who have a high degree of autistic traits often underperform on theory of mind tasks such as perspective-taking or facial emotion recognition compared to those with lower levels of autistic traits. However, some research suggests that this may not be the case if the agent they are evaluating is anthropomorphic (i.e. animal or cartoon) rather than typically human. The present studies examined the relation between facial emotion recognition and autistic trait profiles in over 750 adults using either a standard or cartoon version of the Reading the Mind in the Eyes (RME) test. Results showed that those scoring above the clinical cut off for autistic traits on the Autism Quotient performed significantly worse than those with the lowest levels of autistic traits on the standard RME, while scores across these groups did not differ substantially on the cartoon version of the task. These findings add further evidence that theory of mind ability such as facial emotion recognition is not at a global deficit in those with a high degree of autistic traits. Instead, differences in this ability may be specific to evaluating human agents.

Beeinträchtigtes Erkennen emotionaler Gesichtsausdrücke durch psychiatrische Patientinnen bei Alexithymie

2013 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Dittrich ◽  
Gregor Domes ◽  
Susi Loebel ◽  
Christoph Berger ◽  
Carsten Spitzer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Emotional Expression ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Facial Emotion Recognition ◽  
Facial Emotion ◽  
Check List ◽  
Psychosomatische Erkrankungen ◽  
Psychiatrische Patienten ◽  
Symptom Check List ◽  
Tas 20

Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die Hypothese eines mit Alexithymie assoziierten Defizits beim Erkennen emotionaler Gesichtsaudrücke an einer klinischen Population. Darüber hinaus werden Hypothesen zur Bedeutung spezifischer Emotionsqualitäten sowie zu Gender-Unterschieden getestet. 68 ambulante und stationäre psychiatrische Patienten (44 Frauen und 24 Männer) wurden mit der Toronto-Alexithymie-Skala (TAS-20), der Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Scale (MADRS), der Symptom-Check-List (SCL-90-R) und der Emotional Expression Multimorph Task (EEMT) untersucht. Als Stimuli des Gesichtererkennungsparadigmas dienten Gesichtsausdrücke von Basisemotionen nach Ekman und Friesen, die zu Sequenzen mit sich graduell steigernder Ausdrucksstärke angeordnet waren. Mittels multipler Regressionsanalyse untersuchten wir die Assoziation von TAS-20 Punktzahl und facial emotion recognition (FER). Während sich für die Gesamtstichprobe und den männlichen Stichprobenteil kein signifikanter Zusammenhang zwischen TAS-20-Punktzahl und FER zeigte, sahen wir im weiblichen Stichprobenteil durch die TAS-20 Punktzahl eine signifikante Prädiktion der Gesamtfehlerzahl (β = .38, t = 2.055, p < 0.05) und den Fehlern im Erkennen der Emotionen Wut und Ekel (Wut: β = .40, t = 2.240, p < 0.05, Ekel: β = .41, t = 2.214, p < 0.05). Für wütende Gesichter betrug die Varianzaufklärung durch die TAS-20-Punktzahl 13.3 %, für angeekelte Gesichter 19.7 %. Kein Zusammenhang bestand zwischen der Zeit, nach der die Probanden die emotionalen Sequenzen stoppten, um ihre Bewertung abzugeben (Antwortlatenz) und Alexithymie. Die Ergebnisse der Arbeit unterstützen das Vorliegen eines mit Alexithymie assoziierten Defizits im Erkennen emotionaler Gesichtsausdrücke bei weiblchen Probanden in einer heterogenen, klinischen Stichprobe. Dieses Defizit könnte die Schwierigkeiten Hochalexithymer im Bereich sozialer Interaktionen zumindest teilweise begründen und so eine Prädisposition für psychische sowie psychosomatische Erkrankungen erklären.

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