Brain correlates of musical and facial emotion recognition: Evidence from the dementias

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1814-1822

  Hsieh, S ^a,b   Hornberger, M ^a,b   Piguet, O ^a,b   Hodges, J R ^a,b  

^a NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Emotions; Language; Music; Semantic dementia; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FACE PROFILE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSULA; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION DISORDER; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYGDALA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL LOBAR DEGENERATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSIC; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORGAN SIZE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84862901729     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.04.006     Document Type: Article

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