Abstract
Skin conductance responses (SCR) to emotional and to nonemotional stimuli were measured in 16 right and 16 left unilateral brain-damaged patients. Replicating findings by Morrow, Vrtunski, Kim, & Boller (1981), those patients with a lesion in the left hemisphere showed higher SCR's to emotional than to nonemotional stimuli while those with a right lesion showed no difference between them. This pattern of results remained when variance in performance on a Facial Expression Recognition task was partialled out, suggesting that the absence of differentiated arousal in right-brain-damaged patients is unrelated to their impairment in perceptual analysis.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 143-150 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Journal of Clinical Neuropsychology |
Volume | 4 |
Issue number | 2 |
Publication status | Published - 1982 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Psychiatry and Mental health
- Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology