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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