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Comparison of cutaneous-galvanic and voluntary reactions during recognition of emotional mimicry

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    The process of recognition of mimicked signs of an emotional state depicted on a photograph of a person involves two stages: 1) A preliminary recognition of emotion, accompanied by an involuntary cutaneous-galvanic reaction; 2) a definitive decision that the subject communicates by a voluntary motor reaction.

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    The first (involuntary) stage of recognition may involve components of an orientational reflex, which is indicated by the high percentage of “incorrect” cutaneous-galvanic reactions.

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    The ratio of correct and incorrect cutaneous-galvanic reactions during the recognition of emotions is largely independent of the localization of the cortical injury. At the same time, the localization of the injury significantly affects the ratio of correct and incorrect voluntary motor reactions.

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    Injury of the investigated segments of the right hemisphere disrupts the process of recognition as a whole, while pathology of the left preferentially affects the stage of definitive decision making, which the subject communicates by a voluntary motor reaction.

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  1. Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow

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Clinical portion of work performed under supervision of L. S. Tsvetka at the Nervous Diseases Clinic, First Medical Institute, Moscow.

Translated from Zhurnal Vysshei Nervnoi Deyatel'nosti imeni I. P. Pavlova, Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 309–318, March–April, 1986.

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Sidorova, O.A., Kulikov, M.A. Comparison of cutaneous-galvanic and voluntary reactions during recognition of emotional mimicry. Neurosci Behav Physiol 17, 236–244 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01191257

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