title: Emotional recognition from face, voice, and music in dementia of the Alzheimer type.
abstract: Persons with dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT) are impaired in recognizing emotions from face and voice. Yet clinical practitioners use these mediums to communicate with DAT patients. Music is also used in clinical practice, but little is known about emotional processing from music in DAT. This study aims to assess emotional recognition in mild DAT. Seven patients with DAT and 16 healthy elderly adults were given three tasks of emotional recognition for face, prosody, and music. DAT participants were only impaired in the emotional recognition from the face. These preliminary results suggest that dynamic auditory emotions are preserved in DAT.
authors: Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada. joanie.drapeau@usherbrooke.ca
authors: Joanie
authors: J
authors: Drapeau
authors: Nathalie
authors: N
authors: Gosselin
authors: Lise
authors: L
authors: Gagnon
authors: Isabelle
authors: I
authors: Peretz
authors: Dominique
authors: D
authors: Lorrain
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology*; D004644:Emotions; D005145:Face; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009146:Music; D021641:Recognition, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*; D014831:Voice