Emotional Recognition from Face, Voice, and Music in Dementia of the Alzheimer Type

Drapeau, Joanie; Gosselin, Nathalie; Gagnon, Lise; Peretz, Isabelle; Lorrain, Dominique

doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04768.x

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“…When considering specific emotions, the findings are also inconsistent. While some report deficits in recognizing disgust, anger, sadness, fear, and happiness (Cadieux & Greve, 1997; Drapeau et al, 2009; Hargrave et al, 2002), others report intact recognition for select emotions, such as disgust (Henry et al, 2008), anger (Drapeau et al, 2009; Weiss et al, 2008), surprise (Drapeau et al, 2009), and happiness (Burnham & Hogervorst, 2004; Lavenu et al, 1999; Weiss et al, 2008). It is important to consider the stage of the disease when comparing patients with different neurodegenerative disorders.…”

Section: Assessing Emotion Recognition Abilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Emotion recognition in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer’s disease: A new film-based assessment.

Goodkind¹,

Sturm²,

Ascher³

et al. 2015

Emotion

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Deficits in recognizing others' emotions are reported in many psychiatric and neurological disorders, including autism, schizophrenia, behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD). Most previous emotion recognition studies have required participants to identify emotional expressions in photographs. This type of assessment differs from real-world emotion recognition in important ways: Images are static rather than dynamic, include only 1 modality of emotional information (i.e., visual information), and are presented absent a social context. Additionally, existing emotion recognition batteries typically include multiple negative emotions, but only 1 positive emotion (i.e., happiness) and no self-conscious emotions (e.g., embarrassment). We present initial results using a new task for assessing emotion recognition that was developed to address these limitations. In this task, respondents view a series of short film clips and are asked to identify the main characters' emotions. The task assesses multiple negative, positive, and self-conscious emotions based on information that is multimodal, dynamic, and socially embedded. We evaluate this approach in a sample of patients with bvFTD, AD, and normal controls. Results indicate that patients with bvFTD have emotion recognition deficits in all 3 categories of emotion compared to the other groups. These deficits were especially pronounced for negative and self-conscious emotions. Emotion recognition in this sample of patients with AD was indistinguishable from controls. These findings underscore the utility of this approach to assessing emotion recognition and suggest that previous findings that recognition of positive emotion was preserved in dementia patients may have resulted from the limited sampling of positive emotion in traditional tests.

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Section: Assessing Emotion Recognition Abilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Emotion recognition in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer’s disease: A new film-based assessment.

Goodkind¹,

Sturm²,

Ascher³

et al. 2015

Emotion

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“…In a cross-cultural study, Fritz et al (2009) showed that emotions in these excerpts can be universally recognized. These excerpts have also been used in studies of patients with focal brain damage (Gosselin et al, 2005), neurodegenerative disorders (Drapeau, Gosselin, Gagnon, Peretz, & Lorrain, 2009), and neurotypical children (Hunter, Schellenberg, & Stalinski, 2011). In the present study, the selected excerpts were pseudo-randomized and divided into two blocks of 20 trials each; the presentation order of the blocks was counterbalanced across participants.…”

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Age and Musical Expertise Influence Emotion Recognition in Music

Castro

Lima

2014

Music Perception

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WE INVESTIGATED HOW AGE AND MUSICAL EXPERTISE influence emotion recognition in music. Musically trained and untrained participants from two age cohorts, young and middle-aged adults (N ¼ 80), were presented with music excerpts expressing happiness, peacefulness, sadness, and fear/threat. Participants rated how much each excerpt expressed the four emotions on 10-point scales. The intended emotions were consistently perceived, but responses varied across groups. Advancing age was associated with selective decrements in the recognition of sadness and fear/threat, a finding consistent with previous research (Lima & Castro, 2011a); the recognition of happiness and peacefulness remained stable. Years of music training were associated with enhanced recognition accuracy. These effects were independent of domain-general cognitive abilities and personality traits, but they were echoed in differences in how efficiently music structural cues (e.g., tempo, mode) were relied upon. Thus, age and musical expertise are experiential factors explaining individual variability in emotion recognition in music.

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“…On this, a substantial body of clinical data, according to Clark, Downey and Warren (2014:444-452), has now been amassed, showing the positive effects of music on the structural and emotional processors in developmental and acquired brain disorders, including autism (see Allen, Hill & Heaton 2009;Allen, Walsh & Zangwill 2013;Caria, Venuti & De Falco 2011), strokes and other focal lesions (see Griffiths et al 2004;Jacome 1984;Satoh et al 2011). The study also included the impact music has on neurodegenerative diseases (see Downey et al 2013;Drapeau et al 2009;Hailstone, Omar & Warren 2009;Omar et al 2011). …”

Section: Music and Its Healing Potentialmentioning

confidence: 99%

A metaphysical and neuropsychological assessment of musical tones to affect the brain, relax the mind and heal the body

Pretorius

2017

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It has been empirically established through many controlled studies that one of the most rewarding experiences known to humanity is listening to music, especially because it affects various parts of the brain and causes emotional arousal. The aim of this article is to do a succinct study on music and its effect on, especially, the nervous system, by referring to various empirical studies undertaken on the subject. The article, therefore, has a twofold purpose: (1) to show that throughout history, music has played a special role in various cultures and religions, especially as a healing tool and (2) to demonstrate that sound frequencies and vibrations found in music have the potential to realign the emotions of the nervous system and bring the body back into harmony by reducing stress.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: The article�s challenge and purpose are to show that science and religion are not in conflict, but rather that together they can benefit both disciplines and make better sense of complicated topics, especially those related to how natural science and religion deal with the human body and health, and its relationship to the mind.

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Emotional Recognition from Face, Voice, and Music in Dementia of the Alzheimer Type

Cited by 86 publications

References 20 publications

Emotion recognition in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer’s disease: A new film-based assessment.

Emotion recognition in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer’s disease: A new film-based assessment.

Age and Musical Expertise Influence Emotion Recognition in Music

A metaphysical and neuropsychological assessment of musical tones to affect the brain, relax the mind and heal the body

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