attention

Impact of Emotionally Negative Information on Attentional Processes in Normal Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease

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 …

Emotional attention in Alzheimer's disease

This project relates to my thesis work.

Do patients with Alzheimer’s disease still have a crush on crashes ? Emotional attention in pathological aging

Early Emotional Attention is Impacted in Alzheimer’s Disease : an Eye-Tracking Study

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 …

Impact of emotionally negative information on engagement and disengagement processes in aging : a visual search paradigm in eye-tracking

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 …

Influence d’une information émotionnelle négative sur les processus d’engagement et de désengagement dans la Maladie d’Alzheimer : un paradigme de recherche visuelle en eye-tracking

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 …

Attentional capture by emotional information in Alzheimer’s disease : automatic and motivational processes

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 …