St Jacques, Peggy L, Grady, Cheryl, Davidson, Patrick S R and Chow, Tiffany W (2015) Emotional evaluation and memory in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia. Neurocase, 21 (4). pp. 429-437. ISSN 1465-3656

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Abstract

Behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) affects emotional evaluation, but less is known regarding the patients' ability to remember emotional stimuli. Here, bvFTD patients and age-matched controls studied positive, negative, and neutral pictures followed by a recognition memory test. Compared to controls, bvFTD patients showed a reduction in emotional evaluation of negative scenes, but not of positive or neutral scenes. Additionally, the patients showed an overall reduction in recognition memory accuracy, due to impaired recollection in the face of relatively preserved familiarity. These results show that bvFTD reduces the emotional evaluation of negative scenes and impairs overall recognition memory accuracy and recollection.

Item Type:	Article
Schools and Departments:	School of Psychology > Psychology
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology > BF0180 Experimental psychology B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology > BF0309 Consciousness. Cognition Including learning, attention, comprehension, memory, imagination, genius, intelligence, thought and thinking, psycholinguistics, mental fatigue
Depositing User:	Peggy St Jacques
Date Deposited:	21 Jan 2015 07:19
Last Modified:	27 Jun 2017 18:28
URI:	http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/52290

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