Emotion recognition in objects in patients with neurological disease.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Considerable research indicates that individuals with dementia have deficits in the ability to recognize emotion in other people. The present study examined ability to detect emotional qualities of objects.

Method

Fifty-two patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), 20 patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), 18 patients awaiting surgery for intractable epilepsy, and 159 healthy controls completed a newly developed test of ability to recognize emotional qualities of art (music and paintings), and pleasantness in simple sensory stimuli (tactile, olfactory, auditory), and to make aesthetic judgments (geometric shapes, room décor). A subset of participants also completed a test of ability to recognize emotions in other people.

Results

Patients with FTD showed

SUBMITTER: Shiota MN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6823118 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature