ArticleExperimental brain research2018
Invisible side of emotions: somato-motor responses to affective facial displays in alexithymia.
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- Alexithymia and Facial Mimicry in Response to Infant and Adult Affect-Expressive Faces.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Alexithymia Is Associated With Deficits in Visual Search for Emotional Faces in Clinical Depression.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Electromyographic evidence of reduced emotion mimicry in individuals with a history of non-suicidal self-injury.PloS one · 2020Article
- Explicit and Implicit Responses of Seeing Own vs. Others' Emotions: An Electromyographic Study on the Neurophysiological and Cognitive Basis of the Self-Mirroring Technique.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Alexithymia and the Evaluation of Emotionally Valenced Scenes.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Somatic and visceral effects of word valence, arousal and concreteness in a continuum lexical space.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Aberrant reward prediction error during Pavlovian appetitive learning in alexithymia.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2019Article
- Sex Differences in Affective Facial Reactions Are Present in Childhood.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2018Article
- Alexithymia and the Reduced Ability to Represent the Value of Aversively Motivated Actions.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Alexithymia and Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Complex Relationship.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Alexithymia Is Related to the Need for More Emotional Intensity to Identify Static Fearful Facial Expressions.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
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Abstract
According to recent theories, the detection of emotions involves somatic experiences. In this study, we investigated the relation between somatic responses to affective stimuli, emotion perception, and alexithymia. Variations in automatic rapid facial reactions (RFRs) were measured in a selected population of participants with high and low levels of alexithymia (HA and LA, respectively). Electromyographic activity was recorded from the corrugator supercilii and the zygomaticus major, while participants performed a gender classification task on faces expressing various emotional states. LA participants showed congruent RFRs in response to both fearful and happy stimuli. On the other hand, HA participants did not show congruent RFRs in response to fearful faces. They showed congruent, but delayed, RFRs in response to happy faces. These results provide evidence of a deficit in somato-motor emotional processing in people with high alexithymic personality traits, and thus support the hypothesis that alexithymia is associated with a deficit in emotional embodiment.
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