Emotion - Outline
• What is emotion?
• What causes emotion?– Cannon theory– James- Lang theory– Schacter
• Communication of emotions
• Fronto-temporal Dementia
– Social disinhibition– Poor emotion regulation – Denial of deficit– Inability to navigate the social world
• Anatomy– Orbitofrontal Cortex– Amygdala
Our question: Can FTD patients recognize basic emotions conveyed by facial expressions?
Fernandez-Duque & Black, Neuropsychologia, in press
Emotion Recognition
FTD: Emotion Recognition
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