Alexithymia and the processing of emotional facial expressions (EFEs): systematic review, unanswered questions and further perspectives

D Grynberg, B Chang, O Corneille, P Maurage… - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Alexithymia is characterized by difficulties in identifying, differentiating and describing
feelings. A high prevalence of alexithymia has often been observed in clinical disorders …

Alexithymia and automatic processing of emotional stimuli: a systematic review

US Donges, T Suslow - Reviews in the Neurosciences, 2017 - degruyter.com
Alexithymia is a personality trait characterized by difficulties in recognizing and verbalizing
emotions and the utilization of a cognitive style that is oriented toward external events, rather …

Having no words for feelings: alexithymia as a fundamental personality dimension at the interface of cognition and emotion

O Luminet, KA Nielson, N Ridout - Cognition and Emotion, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This special issue brings together two important reviews and seven cutting-edge empirical
papers concerning the influence of alexithymia on cognitive and emotional processing …

Neural correlates of alexithymia: A meta-analysis of emotion processing studies

J van der Velde, MN Servaas, KS Goerlich… - Neuroscience & …, 2013 - Elsevier
Alexithymia is a personality trait characterized by difficulties in the experience and cognitive
processing of emotions. It is considered a risk factor for a range of psychiatric and …

An investigation of facial emotion recognition impairments in alexithymia and its neural correlates

S Jongen, N Axmacher, NAW Kremers… - Behavioural brain …, 2014 - Elsevier
Alexithymia is a personality trait that involves difficulties identifying emotions and describing
feelings. It is hypothesized that this includes facial emotion recognition but limited …

Cognitive-emotional processing in alexithymia: an integrative review

O Luminet, KA Nielson, N Ridout - Cognition and Emotion, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Alexithymia is a multifaceted personality construct characterised by difficulties identifying
one's feelings and distinguishing them from bodily sensations, difficulties describing one's …

Processing of facial expressions of negative emotion in alexithymia: the influence of temporal constraint

PD Parker, KM Prkachin, GC Prkachin - Journal of personality, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Alexithymia, a characteristic involving a limited affective vocabulary appears to involve three
components: difficulty identifying feelings, difficulty describing feelings, and externally …

Individual differences in alexithymia and brain response to masked emotion faces

M Reker, P Ohrmann, AV Rauch, H Kugel, J Bauer… - Cortex, 2010 - Elsevier
Alexithymia is considered a dimensional personality trait that refers to a cluster of deficits in
the recognition, differentiation, and verbalization of emotions. Research on the neurobiology …

Dealing with feelings: characterization of trait alexithymia on emotion regulation strategies and cognitive-emotional processing

M Swart, R Kortekaas, A Aleman - PloS one, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Background Alexithymia, or “no words for feelings”, is a personality trait which is associated
with difficulties in emotion recognition and regulation. It is unknown whether this deficit is …

Specific brain processing of facial expressions in people with alexithymia: an H215O‐PET study

M Kano, S Fukudo, J Gyoba, M Kamachi, M Tagawa… - Brain, 2003 - academic.oup.com
Alexithymia is a personal trait characterized by a reduced ability to identify and describe
one's own feelings and is known to contribute to a variety of physical and behavioural …