Reading emotion
Affect recognition
Also searched as Affect recognition.
In depth
A subdomain of social cognition: identifying emotional states in others from face, voice and posture. One of only two subdomains dsm-5 names under social cognition.
What drives it
Mood increases it.
patients with MDD required a greater intensity of the happy expression to recognize a face as happy. After three months, this negative perceptual bias was reduced in comparison to the control group. The reduction in negative perceptual bias correlated with the reduction of depressive symptoms. Verbatim from the source for this edge — PMC4454562. PMC4454562
What it drives
It increases Social cognition.
10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1333711 — The DSM-5 Neurocognitive Work Group agreed on six principal domains of cognitive function, each with subdomains. Social cognition comprises recognition of emotions and theory of mind. Taxonomic edge, not a causal mechanism: this is a DSM-5 domain/subdomain relationship, not a pathway acting on another. Sachdev 2014, Nat Rev Neurol 10:634-642 — Classifying neurocognitive disorders: the DSM-5 approach. doi 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1333711
It increases Reading other people.
This review of lesion and functional imaging evidence concludes that emotion perception is the lower-level process that precedes and feeds higher-level mental-state inference in information-processing models of social cognition, with substantially overlapping medial prefrontal and temporal substrates. doi 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.02.018 · PMID 25687032
It modulates Mood.
The direction of the causal relationship between MDD and facial emotion recognition could not be determined in the present study. Verbatim from the source for this edge — PMC8457509. PMC8457509
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