I THINK I KNOW HOW YOU FEEL: NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL CORRELATES OF EMOTION PERCEPTION IN FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA
Anna Toledo, Nishita Paruchuri, Sae Yokoyama, Enna Chen, Alice Hua, Joel Kramer, Robert Levenson, Casey Brown · 2024
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Anna Toledo and co-authors ask which mental skills let a person read feelings in others in a 2024 study of frontotemporal dementia. The disease erodes social cognition, and losing the thread of others' emotions strains every relationship. One hundred ten people took part: patients across three dementia variants and healthy peers.
Two film tasks split emotion reading in two: naming a character's feeling, and tracking its warmth moment by moment with a dial. Word knowledge, tested by naming and vocabulary, predicted the naming task but not the tracking task. Executive skills, from backward digit span to trail making, predicted both, and tracked the dial task more strongly. The pattern suggests that labeling feelings leans on stored word meaning, while riding a shifting mood leans on live control systems.
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| CREATOR | Anna Toledo, Nishita Paruchuri, Sae Yokoyama, Enna Chen, Alice Hua, Joel Kramer, Robert Levenson, Casey Brown |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |