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. 2009 Dec 2;29(48):15089–15099. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0796-09.2009

Table 2.

Impaired recognition of emotion in lesion subjects

Average Happy Sad Angry Afraid Disgusted Surprised
HC 0.88 0.94 0.88 0.83 0.83 0.86 0.87
(1.36, 0.15) (1.77, 0.39) (1.34, 0.18) (1.19, 0.21) (1.20, 0.19) (1.28, 0.22) (1.36, 0.21)
BD 0.81 0.92 0.74* 0.80 0.69* 0.77 0.73*
(1.17, 0.25) (1.74, 0.47) (1.03, 0.31) (1.16, 0.26) (0.94, 0.37) (1.08, 0.30) (1.05, 0.39)
N 42 7 54 9 40 26 46
CS 0.69 0.88 0.67 0.71 0.40 0.52 0.76
(0.84, 3.47) (1.37, 1.04) (0.82, 2.93) (0.88, 1.48) (0.42, 4.22) (0.57, 3.20) (1.00, 1.75)

The table gives the mean correlation of ratings given to each emotion, and its normally distributed transform is shown in parentheses (mean Fisher's Z transform, SD). HC, Correlation of ratings within the healthy comparison group; each healthy subject's ratings were correlated with those of the remaining group to derive these measures. BD, Correlation of ratings between the healthy comparison group and the brain-damaged group. n, Number of brain-damaged subjects (of a total of 103) whose correlation score was classified as impaired (defined as −1.65 SD below the mean of the healthy comparison group). CS, Case study (subject 1981).

*p < 0.05, significant difference in mean correlation rating between BD and HC.