Emotion recognition from facial expressions: A normative study of the Ekman 60-Faces Test in the Italian population

Neurological Sciences

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1015-1021

  Dodich, Alessandra ^a,b   Cerami, Chiara ^a,b   Canessa, Nicola ^a,b   Crespi, Chiara ^a,b   Marcone, Alessandra ^b   Arpone, Marta ^a   Realmuto, Sabrina ^c   Cappa, Stefano F ^a,b  

^a VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia; Ekman 60 Faces Test; Emotion recognition; Social cognition; Standardization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EKMAN 60 FACES TEST; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL VARIANT FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ITALY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; NORMAL VALUE; POPULATION; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; FACE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMOTIONS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REFERENCE VALUES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903397633     PISSN: 15901874     EISSN: 15903478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10072-014-1631-x     Document Type: Article

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