Explicit and Implicit Components of the Emotional Processing in Non-organic Vision Loss: Behavioral Evidence About the Role of Fear in Functional Blindness

Explicit and Implicit Components of the Emotional Processing in Non-organic Vision Loss: Behavioral Evidence About the Role of Fear in Functional Blindness

Non-organic vision loss (NOVL), a functional partial or global vision loss, might be considered a manifestation of conversion disorder. The few previous studies focused on investigating the relationship between cerebral activity and subjective symptoms in NOVL; however, the emotional processing is s...

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Main Authors: Federica Scarpina, Lisa Melzi, Gianluca Castelnuovo, Alessandro Mauro, Stefania B. Marzoli, Enrico Molinari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
non-organic visual loss
facial emotion recognition
redundant target effect
fear
alexithymia
visual perception
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00494/full

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