When affect overlaps with concept: emotion recognition in semantic variant of primary progressive aphasia.

ABSTRACT: The most recent theories of emotions have postulated that their expression and recognition depend on acquired conceptual knowledge. In other words, the conceptual knowledge derived from prior experiences guide our ability to make sense of such emotions. However, clear evidence is still lacking to contradict more traditional theories, considering emotions as innate, distinct and universal physiological states. In addition, whether valence processing (i.e. recognition of the pleasant/unpleasant character of emotions) also relies on semantic knowledge is yet to be determined. To investigate the contribution of semantic knowledge to facial emotion recognition and valence processing, we conducted a behavioural and neuroimaging study in 20 controls and 16 patients with the semantic variant of pr

SUBMITTER: Bertoux M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7805810 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature