Recent trends in testing social cognition

Henry, Julie D.; Cowan, David; Lee, Teresa; Sachdev, Perminder S.

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“…While it has been shown that several social cognitive tasks, especially assessments of ToM, have high test-retest or interrater reliability [see, e.g., (152)], the extent to which impairments on the various social cognitive tasks that OCD patients exhibit are valid indications of social cognitive problems in daily life is currently unclear. Notably, effect sizes for disgust recognition deficits in OCD patients were much smaller for tasks employing morphed compared to static facial expressions (41), whereas the first can be seen as the most ecologically valid and subtle assessment of emotion recognition.…”

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Social Cognition and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Review of Subdomains of Social Functioning

2020

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Disturbances in social cognitive processes such as the ability to infer others' mental states importantly contribute to social and functional impairments in psychiatric disorders. Yet, despite established social, emotional, and cognitive problems, the role of social cognition in obsessive-compulsive disorder is largely overlooked. The current review provides a first comprehensive overview of social (neuro)cognitive disturbances in adult patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Results of our review indicate various social cognitive alterations. Patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder show deficits in the recognition of affective social cues, specifically facial expressions of disgust, and more general deficits in theory of mind/mentalizing. Additionally, patients show heightened affective reactions and altered neural responding to emotions of self and others, as well as poor emotion regulation skills, which may contribute to poor social functioning of patients. However, the discrepancies in findings and scarcity of studies make it difficult to draw firm conclusions with regard to the specificity of social cognitive disturbances. The review offers directions for future research and highlights the need to investigate obsessive-compulsive disorder from an interactive social neurocognitive perspective in addition to the prevalent passive spectator perspective to advance our understanding of this intricate and burdensome disorder.

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Social Cognition and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Review of Subdomains of Social Functioning

2020

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“…Conclusions on eloquence of the cerebellum for social cognition would benefit from sufficiently powered studies in patients with rather homogeneous lesion size, topography and etiology at defined time-points after disease onset. In addition, consideration of ecological validity appears helpful when assessing impact on everyday social function (Henry et al, 2015).…”

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The Cerebellum in Social Cognition

Sokolov

2018

Front. Cell. Neurosci.

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“…There is evidence that cognitive training has a positive effect on cognitive function, and the preservation of cognitive function is associated with a healthier lifestyle and greater well-being (Henry et al, 2015; Llewellyn et al, 2008; WHO, 2011). However, recent studies on computer-based cognitive training have focused mainly on improvements in cognitive function or transfer to other cognitive tasks (Kueider et al, 2012; Maseda et al, 2013; Rizkalla, 2015; Shatil et al, 2014; Van Muijden, Band & Hommel, 2012) rather than on the self-perceived emotional experience denoted as well-being.…”

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The effect of cognitive training on the subjective perception of well-being in older adults

Bureš

Čech

Mikulecká

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BackgroundThere is a growing number of studies indicating the major consequences of the subjective perception of well-being on mental health and healthcare use. However, most of the cognitive training research focuses more on the preservation of cognitive function than on the implications of the state of well-being. This secondary analysis of data from a randomised controlled trial investigated the effects of individualised television-based cognitive training on self-rated well-being using the WHO-5 index while considering gender and education as influencing factors. The effects of cognitive training were compared with leisure activities that the elderly could be engaged in to pass time.MethodsCognitively healthy participants aged 60 years or above screened using the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) and Major Depression Inventory (MDI) were randomly allocated to a cognitive training group or to an active control group in a single-blind controlled two-group design and underwent 24 training sessions. Data acquired from the WHO-5 questionnaire administered before and after intervention were statistically analysed using a mixed design model for repeated measures. The effect of individualised cognitive training was compared with leisure activities while the impact of gender and education was explored using estimated marginal means.ResultsA total of 81 participants aged 67.9 ± 5.59 [60–84] without cognitive impairments and absent of depression symptoms underwent the study. Participants with leisure time activities declared significantly higher scores compared to participants with cognitive training M = 73.48 ± 2.88, 95% CI [67.74–79.22] vs M = 64.13 ± 3.034, 95% CI [58.09–70.17] WHO-5 score. Gender and education were found to moderate the effect of cognitive training on well-being when compared to leisure activities. Females engaged in leisure activities in the control group reported higher by M = 9.77 ± 5.4, 95% CI [−0.99–20.54] WHO-5 scores than females with the cognitive training regimen. Participants with high school education declared leisure activities to increase WHO-5 scores by M = 14.59 ± 5.39, 95% CI [3.85–25.34] compared to individualised cognitive training.DiscussionThe findings revealed that individualised cognitive training was not directly associated with improvements in well-being. Changes in the control group indicated that involvement in leisure time activities, in which participants were partly free to choose from, represented more favourable stimulation to a self-perceived sense of well-being than individualised cognitive training. Results also supported the fact that gender and education moderated the effect of cognitive training on well-being. Females and participants with high school education were found to be negatively impacted in well-being when performance connected with cognitive training was expected.

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Recent trends in testing social cognition

Cited by 65 publications

References 30 publications

Social Cognition and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Review of Subdomains of Social Functioning

Social Cognition and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Review of Subdomains of Social Functioning

The Cerebellum in Social Cognition

The effect of cognitive training on the subjective perception of well-being in older adults

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