INS NYC 2024 Program

Poster	Poster Session 03 Program Schedule 02/15/2024 09:30 am - 10:40 am Room: Shubert Complex (Posters 1-60) Poster Session 03: Neurotrauma \| Neurovascular Final Abstract #38 Evaluating Social Perception Using the TASIT in Individuals with TBI. Jeannie Lengenfelder, Kessler Foundation, East Hanover, United States Erica Weber, Kessler Foundation, East Hanover, United States Jacqueline Leddy, Kessler Foundation, East Hanover, United States Ashley Barreto, Kessler Foundation, East Hanover, United States Haleigh Hamrick, Kessler Foundation, East Hanover, United States Nancy Chiaravalloti, Kessler Foundation, East Hanover, United States Category: Acquired Brain Injury (TBI/Cerebrovascular Injury and Disease - Adult) Keyword 1: social cognition Keyword 2: traumatic brain injury Objective: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is frequently associated with difficulties with interpersonal functioning, due in part to impaired social cognition. The majority of research evaluating emotion recognition and social perception utilize assessments with static displays rather the recognition of social cues in more naturalistic settings. Utilizing assessment measures that are more aligned to real world experiences may capture difficulties not evidenced by static or unnatural tasks. The Awareness of Social Inference Test (TASIT) utilizes videos of vignettes of everyday social interactions requiring individuals to integrate cues from multiple sources including facial expressions, prosody, gesture, and social context. In the present study, we aimed to evaluate social perception in individuals with TBI using TASIT. Participants and Methods: Twenty-eight individuals with moderate-severe TBI and 30 matched healthy individuals were administered Parts 1 and 3 of the TASIT. Individuals with TBI were, on average 41.07 years old (SD=14.29), had 14.64 years of education (2.04), were 85% male, and were 125.43 months since injury (SD=102.50). Part 1, Emotion Evaluation Test (EET), consists of 28 short video clips assessing the recognition of spontaneous emotional expression of 6 emotions (happy, surprised, sad, anxious, angry, disgusted) and neutral. Part 3, Social Inference-Enriched test (SI-E), consists of 16 video vignettes which assess the ability to detect lies versus sarcasm in social encounters. Results: For Part 1, there was no difference between groups on neutral expressions. However, there were significant differences in 5 of the 6 emotions (happy p=.028, η²= .083; surprised p=.027, η²= .085; sad p=.003, η²= .018; angry p=.96, η²= .144; anxious p=.022, η² = .091; disgust p=.002, η²= .155). For Part 3, there were significant differences between groups in their ability to correctly identify both lies (lies total p=.007, η²= .124) and sarcasm (sarcasm total p=.004, η²= .140). Conclusions: Individuals with TBI were able to correctly identify fewer emotions when compared to healthy individuals (happy, surprised, sad, anxious, and disgusted). Additionally, individuals with TBI had greater difficulty than healthy individuals in identifying lies and sarcasm in social situations. These results are consistent with previous research using static displays and verbal stories to identify lies and sarcasm. Understanding the nature of the social perception difficulties that can occur after TBI can lead to focused intervention programs to improve such deficits. Utilizing assessment measures that are more aligned to real world experiences may capture difficulties not evidenced by static or unnatural tasks. Identifying social deficits using dynamic stimuli, such as identifying lies and sarcasm, can guide targeted training and remediation of such deficits that yield great impact on daily interpersonal encounters.

Poster

02/15/2024
09:30 am - 10:40 am
Room: Shubert Complex (Posters 1-60)

Poster Session 03: Neurotrauma | Neurovascular

Final Abstract #38

Evaluating Social Perception Using the TASIT in Individuals with TBI.

Jeannie Lengenfelder, Kessler Foundation, East Hanover, United States
Erica Weber, Kessler Foundation, East Hanover, United States
Jacqueline Leddy, Kessler Foundation, East Hanover, United States
Ashley Barreto, Kessler Foundation, East Hanover, United States
Haleigh Hamrick, Kessler Foundation, East Hanover, United States
Nancy Chiaravalloti, Kessler Foundation, East Hanover, United States

Category: Acquired Brain Injury (TBI/Cerebrovascular Injury and Disease - Adult)

Keyword 1: social cognition
Keyword 2: traumatic brain injury

Objective:

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is frequently associated with difficulties with interpersonal functioning, due in part to impaired social cognition. The majority of research evaluating emotion recognition and social perception utilize assessments with static displays rather the recognition of social cues in more naturalistic settings. Utilizing assessment measures that are more aligned to real world experiences may capture difficulties not evidenced by static or unnatural tasks. The Awareness of Social Inference Test (TASIT) utilizes videos of vignettes of everyday social interactions requiring individuals to integrate cues from multiple sources including facial expressions, prosody, gesture, and social context. In the present study, we aimed to evaluate social perception in individuals with TBI using TASIT.

Participants and Methods:

Twenty-eight individuals with moderate-severe TBI and 30 matched healthy individuals were administered Parts 1 and 3 of the TASIT. Individuals with TBI were, on average 41.07 years old (SD=14.29), had 14.64 years of education (2.04), were 85% male, and were 125.43 months since injury (SD=102.50). Part 1, Emotion Evaluation Test (EET), consists of 28 short video clips assessing the recognition of spontaneous emotional expression of 6 emotions (happy, surprised, sad, anxious, angry, disgusted) and neutral. Part 3, Social Inference-Enriched test (SI-E), consists of 16 video vignettes which assess the ability to detect lies versus sarcasm in social encounters.

Results:

For Part 1, there was no difference between groups on neutral expressions. However, there were significant differences in 5 of the 6 emotions (happy p=.028, η²= .083; surprised p=.027, η²= .085; sad p=.003, η²= .018; angry p=.96, η²= .144; anxious p=.022, η² = .091; disgust p=.002, η²= .155). For Part 3, there were significant differences between groups in their ability to correctly identify both lies (lies total p=.007, η²= .124) and sarcasm (sarcasm total p=.004, η²= .140).

Conclusions:

Individuals with TBI were able to correctly identify fewer emotions when compared to healthy individuals (happy, surprised, sad, anxious, and disgusted). Additionally, individuals with TBI had greater difficulty than healthy individuals in identifying lies and sarcasm in social situations. These results are consistent with previous research using static displays and verbal stories to identify lies and sarcasm. Understanding the nature of the social perception difficulties that can occur after TBI can lead to focused intervention programs to improve such deficits. Utilizing assessment measures that are more aligned to real world experiences may capture difficulties not evidenced by static or unnatural tasks. Identifying social deficits using dynamic stimuli, such as identifying lies and sarcasm, can guide targeted training and remediation of such deficits that yield great impact on daily interpersonal encounters.