Impairments of emotional attention have been reported in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). In this study, we hypothesized that patients with AD might show a deficit of orientation toward emotional information under conditions of visual search. Eighteen …
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Emotional deficits have been repetitively reported in Alzheimer's disease (AD) without clearly identifying how emotional processing is impaired in this pathology. This paper describes an investigation of early emotional processing, as measured by the …
Socioemotional selectivity theory posits the existence of a motivational positivity bias in aging, leading to a facilitated engagement towards positive information in older adults. However, several studies suggest that an early engagement toward …
La Maladie d’Alzheimer (MA) est une pathologie neurodégénérative caractérisée par une atrophie précoce de l’amygdale. En accord avec de précédents travaux montrant un déficit d’orientation vers et de maintien sur l’information émotionnelle dans des …
Based on recent work, the attentional salience of emotion seems to be incorrectly processed in Alzheimer's Disease (AD). This phenomenon could be due to early amygdala atrophy, a structure involved in the detection of emotional salience. Using …