Journal
EMOTION REVIEW
Volume 11, Issue 3, Pages 247-261Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1754073919838528
Keywords
alexithymia; emotion development; emotion recognition; language
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- Baily Thomas Charitable Fund
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Alexithymia is characterized by difficulty identifying and describing one's own emotion. Identifying and describing one's emotion involves several cognitive processes, so alexithymia may result from a number of impairments. Here we propose the alexithymia language hypothesis-the hypothesis that language impairment can give rise to alexithymia-and critically review relevant evidence from healthy populations, developmental disorders, adult-onset illness, and acquired brain injury. We conclude that the available evidence is supportive of the alexithymia-language hypothesis, and therefore that language impairment may represent one of multiple routes to alexithymia. Where evidence is lacking, we outline which approaches will be useful in testing this hypothesis.
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