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Abstract

The Facial Feedback Hypothesis (FFH) states that facial emotion recognition is based on the imitation of facial emotional expressions and the processing of physiological feedback. In the light of limited and contradictory evidence, this hypothesis is still being debated. Therefore, in the present study, emotion recognition was tested in patients with central facial paresis after stroke. Performance in facial vs. auditory emotion recognition was assessed in patients with vs. without facial paresis. The accuracy of objective facial emotion recognition was significantly lower in patients with vs. without facial paresis and also in comparison to healthy controls. Moreover, for patients with facial paresis, the accuracy measure for facial emotion recognition was significantly worse than that for auditory emotion recognition. Finally, in patients with facial paresis, the subjective judgements of their own facial emotion recognition abilities differed strongly from their objective performances. This pattern of results demonstrates a specific deficit in facial emotion recognition in central facial paresis and thus provides support for the FFH and points out certain effects of stroke.

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Title
Is There a Difference in Facial Emotion Recognition after Stroke with vs. without Central Facial Paresis?
Author
Anna-Maria Kuttenreich 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Harry von Piekartz 2 ; Heim, Stefan 3 

 Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Pauwelsstr. 30, 52074 Aachen, Germany; [email protected]; Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Pauwelsstr. 30, 52074 Aachen, Germany; Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Jena University Hospital, Am Klinikum 1, 07747 Jena, Germany; Facial-Nerve-Center Jena, Jena University Hospital, Am Klinikum 1, 07747 Jena, Germany; Center of Rare Diseases Jena, Jena University Hospital, Am Klinikum 1, 07747 Jena, Germany 
 Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences, Albrechtstr. 30, 49076 Osnabrück, Germany; [email protected] 
 Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Pauwelsstr. 30, 52074 Aachen, Germany; [email protected]; Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Pauwelsstr. 30, 52074 Aachen, Germany; Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM−1), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Leo-Brand-Str. 5, 52428 Jülich, Germany 
First page
1721
Publication year
2022
Publication date
2022
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
20754418
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2693960337
Copyright
© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.