Channel- and category-specific emotion recognition deficits and their associations with symptomatology and cognition in individuals with schizophrenia

Age and sex differences in emotion perception are influenced by emotional category and communication channel.

“…All stimuli utilized in this study had previously been employed in our earlier investigations on the perception of emotions among young, healthy, and clinical populations (Lin & Ding, 2020; Lin et al, 2020, 2021a, 2021b; Lin, Li, Hu, et al, 2023; Lin, Li, Wang, et al, 2023). To validate these stimuli, we conducted a norming study in which 23 young Chinese students studying at SJTU (11 female and 12 male participants, M age ± SD : 23.70 ± 2.59) who were not participants in the current experiment were invited to recognize the emotional category and rate the emotional intensity of each facial, prosodic or semantic stimulus.…”