Description
Adequate emotion recognition is relevant to individuals’ interpersonal communication. Patients with frontal traumatic brain
injury (TBI) exhibit a lower response to facial emotional stimuli, influencing social interactions. In this sense, the main goal of
the current study was to assess the ability of TBI patients in recognizing basic emotions. Photographs of facial expressions of
five basic emotions (happiness, sadness, fear, anger, and surprise) were presented to 32 TBI patients and 41 healthy controls.
Emotion recognition was measured by accuracy and reaction time. Overall performance of the TBI group was poorer than
control group for emotion recognition, both in terms of accuracy and reaction time. It is suggested that TBI patients show
impairment on emotion recognition, and this relation seems to be moderated by the lesion localization.
Keywords:
emotion
recognition, basic emotions, TBI patients.
; Faísca, Luís 
