Familiar smiling faces in Alzheimer's disease: Understanding the positivity-related recognition bias

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2935-2940

  Werheid, Katja ^a   McDonald, Rebecca S ^a   Simmons Stern, Nicholas ^b,c   Ally, Brandon A ^d   Budson, Andrew E ^b,c  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer disease; Facial emotion; False recognition; Memory; Socioemotional selectivity

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANGER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTIONALITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACIES; FALSE MEMORY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; MALE; MOOD CHANGE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATTERN RECOGNITION; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPREHENSION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SMILING;

EID: 80051475333     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.06.022     Document Type: Article

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