Facial training.xlsx

The file Facial training.xlsx separately reports the number of responses Happiness, Fear, Anger, Sadness, of each participant of two groups (Experimental and Control) of patients with schizophrenia to a facial expression categorization test, performed at the beginning (Test1) and at the end (Test2) of the study. Three times a week for five weeks, the participants of the Experimental group (n=12) were submitted to a facial physical training during which transitive actions were proposed as exercises (e.g., to inflate balloons, to hold round objects of various sizes by tightly contracting the muscles around the eyes). During the same period the participants in the Control group (n=12) carried out the activities proposed by the nursing home. The stimuli of the test were the result of a morphed transformation of four original pictures portraying the different emotion expressions. This transformation gave rise to four continua: anger-fear, anger-sadness, fear-happiness and happiness-sadness. For each emotion (e.g., Fear), the data set shows the sum of the relative responses given in trials belonging to the less ambiguous half of the two continua in which the emotion was present (e.g., anger-fear and fear-happiness). For each emotion we calculated the number of responses given in 48 trials.