Are visual impairments responsible for emotion decoding deficits in alcohol-dependence?. D'Hondt, F., Lepore, F., & Maurage, P. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8(MAR):128, mar, 2014.
Are visual impairments responsible for emotion decoding deficits in alcohol-dependence? [link]Paper  doi  abstract   bibtex   
Emotional visual perception deficits constitute a major problem in alcohol-dependence. Indeed, the ability to assess the affective content of external cues is a key adaptive function, as it allows on the one hand the processing of potentially threatening or advantageous stimuli, and on the other hand the establishment of appropriate social interactions (by enabling rapid decoding of the affective state of others from their facial expressions). While such deficits have been classically considered as reflecting a genuine emotion decoding impairment in alcohol-dependence, converging evidence suggests that underlying visual deficits might play a role in emotional alterations. This hypothesis appears to be relevant especially as data from healthy populations indicate that a coarse but fast analysis of visual inputs would allow emotional processing to arise from early stages of perception. After reviewing those findings and the associated models, the present paper underlines data showing that rapid interactions between emotion and vision could be impaired in alcohol-dependence and provides new research avenues that may ultimately offer a better understanding of the roots of emotional deficits in this pathological state. © 2014 D'Hondt, Lepore and Maurage.
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abstract = {Emotional visual perception deficits constitute a major problem in alcohol-dependence. Indeed, the ability to assess the affective content of external cues is a key adaptive function, as it allows on the one hand the processing of potentially threatening or advantageous stimuli, and on the other hand the establishment of appropriate social interactions (by enabling rapid decoding of the affective state of others from their facial expressions). While such deficits have been classically considered as reflecting a genuine emotion decoding impairment in alcohol-dependence, converging evidence suggests that underlying visual deficits might play a role in emotional alterations. This hypothesis appears to be relevant especially as data from healthy populations indicate that a coarse but fast analysis of visual inputs would allow emotional processing to arise from early stages of perception. After reviewing those findings and the associated models, the present paper underlines data showing that rapid interactions between emotion and vision could be impaired in alcohol-dependence and provides new research avenues that may ultimately offer a better understanding of the roots of emotional deficits in this pathological state. {\textcopyright} 2014 D'Hondt, Lepore and Maurage.},
author = {D'Hondt, Fabien and Lepore, Franco and Maurage, Pierre},
doi = {10.3389/fnhum.2014.00128},
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isbn = {1662-5161 (Electronic)\r1662-5161 (Linking)},
issn = {16625161},
journal = {Frontiers in Human Neuroscience},
keywords = {Alcohol-dependence,Amygdala,Dorsal visual stream,Emotion,Magnocellular pathways,Orbitofrontal cortex,Vision},
month = {mar},
number = {MAR},
pages = {128},
pmid = {24653688},
title = {{Are visual impairments responsible for emotion decoding deficits in alcohol-dependence?}},
url = {http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24653688 http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00128/abstract http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=PMC3948105},
volume = {8},
year = {2014}
}

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