Title |
Alexithymia and the labeling of facial emotions: response slowing and increased motor and somatosensory processing
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Published in |
BMC Neuroscience, March 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2202-15-40 |
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Authors |
Klas Ihme, Julia Sacher, Vladimir Lichev, Nicole Rosenberg, Harald Kugel, Michael Rufer, Hans-Jörgen Grabe, André Pampel, Jöran Lepsien, Anette Kersting, Arno Villringer, Thomas Suslow |
Abstract |
Alexithymia is a personality trait that is characterized by difficulties in identifying and describing feelings. Previous studies have shown that alexithymia is related to problems in recognizing others' emotional facial expressions when these are presented with temporal constraints. These problems can be less severe when the expressions are visible for a relatively long time. Because the neural correlates of these recognition deficits are still relatively unexplored, we investigated the labeling of facial emotions and brain responses to facial emotions as a function of alexithymia. |
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