Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0208141

Funded Activity Summary

Empathy, Attention and Reasoning: The role of automatic and controlled processing in emotion recognition following traumatic brain injury. Traumatically brain injured adults have difficulty identifying emotional facial expressions but little is known regarding their psychophysiological reactions to emotional expression, the efficacy of their visual search patterns of facial features or the extent to which they engage conscious processing and problem solving to assist interpretation. Nor is anything known about their ability to recognise dynamic emotional displays compared to photographs. This project examines each of these facets using static and dynamic portrayals. The project will inform neuropsychological theories of facial processing, test the ecological validity of previous research and improve understanding of psychosocial deficits after TBI and their treatment.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 13-02-2002

End Date: 30-12-2005

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $125,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Biological Psychology (Neuropsychology, Psychopharmacology, Physiological Psychology) | Psychology | Learning, Memory, Cognition And Language | Neurology And Neuromuscular Diseases

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Nervous system and disorders | Diagnostic methods |

Other Keywords

Biological Psychology (Neuropsychology, Psychopharmacology, Physiological Psychology) | Diagnostic methods | Learning, Memory, Cognition And Language | Nervous system and disorders | Neurology And Neuromuscular Diseases | Psychology

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