Social cognition dysfunctions in patients with epilepsy: Evidence from patients with temporal lobe and idiopathic generalized epilepsies

• “All subjects underwent a basic neuropsychological battery plus two experimental tasks evaluating emotion recognition from facial expression (Ekman-60-Faces test, Ek-60F) and mental state attribution (Story-based Empathy Task, SET). In particular, the latter is a newly developed task that assesses the ability to infer others' intentions (i.e., intention attribution — IA) and emotions (i.e., emotion attribution — EA) compared with a control condition of physical causality (i.e., causal inferences — CI).”
• “On the contrary, patients with IGE showed impairments on anger recognition only without any deficit at the SET task.”