ArticleDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2021
"What Is Hidden behind the Mask?" Facial Emotion Recognition at the Time of COVID-19 Pandemic in Cognitively Normal Multiple Sclerosis Patients.
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- Masked emotions: does children's affective state influence emotion recognition?Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Emotions behind a mask: the value of disgust.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2023Article
- Face coverings differentially alter valence judgments of emotional expressions.Basic and applied social psychology · 2023Article
- Face-mask-aware Facial Expression Recognition based on Face Parsing and Vision Transformer.Pattern recognition letters · 2022Article
- The Effect of Surgical Masks on the Featural and Configural Processing of Emotions.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Deep Neural Network Approach for Pose, Illumination, and Occlusion Invariant Driver Emotion Detection.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Mapping the perception-space of facial expressions in the era of face masks.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Social cognition deficits have been described in people with multiple sclerosis (PwMS), even in absence of a global cognitive impairment, affecting predominantly the ability to adequately process emotions from human faces. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced people to wear face masks that might interfere with facial emotion recognition. Therefore, in the present study, we aimed at investigating the ability of emotion recognition in PwMS from faces wearing masks. We enrolled a total of 42 cognitively normal relapsing-remitting PwMS and a matched group of 20 healthy controls (HCs). Participants underwent a facial emotion recognition task in which they had to recognize from faces wearing or not surgical masks which of the six basic emotions (happiness, anger, fear, sadness, surprise, disgust) was presented. Results showed that face masks negatively affected emotion recognition in all participants (
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