Recognition of nonverbal communication of emotion after traumatic brain injury.

Publisher: IOS Press Country of Publication: Netherlands NLM ID: 9113791 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1878-6448 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 10538135 NLM ISO Abbreviation: NeuroRehabilitation Subsets: MEDLINE

Publication: Amsterdam : IOS Press
Original Publication: Reading, MA : Andover Medical Publishers, Inc., c1991-

Emotions* ; Recognition, Psychology*; Brain Injuries/*psychology ; Nonverbal Communication/*psychology; Acoustic Stimulation ; Facial Expression ; Gestures ; Humans

Background: Individuals who have had a traumatic brain injury (TBI) often have difficulty processing nonverbal communication (Ekman, 1976) The published research in this area has focused on a TBI patient's ability to recognize facial expression, vocal intonation, and postural expression (Croker, 2005; Hopkins, Dywan & Segalowitz, 2002).
Objective: This study compared the non-verbal processing skills of brain-injured patients versus non-injured controls in all three domains.
Methods: The stimuli were photographs of facial and postural expressions and audio recordings of intonational expressions.
Results: The results indicated that persons with TBI have particular difficulty recognizing non-verbal communication resulting from vocal intonations.
Conclusions: The TBI patients had difficulty processing tonality, therefore, it is reasonable to suggest that clinicians, friends, and family members should emphasize the explicit verbal content of spoken language when speaking to a person with TBI.

Erratum in: NeuroRehabilitation. 2014;34(4):819.

Keywords: Emotion recognition; brain injury; cognitive rehabilitation; nonverbal communication

Date Created: 20131129 Date Completed: 20141016 Latest Revision: 20191210

20250114

10.3233/NRE-131006

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