In response to uncovering brain mechanisms underlying vocal communication and
searching for biomarkers for mental illnesses, speech prosody has been increasingly …

This paper reviews findings in three subcomponents of social cognition (ie, Theory of Mind,
facial emotion recognition, empathy) during ageing. Changes over time in social cognition …

Cognitive aging is a flourishing area of research. A significant amount of new data, a number
of new theoretical notions, and many new research issues have been generated in the past …

Language in old age has been an active research area since early experimental
investigations in cognitive aging (eg, Craik & Masani, 1967; Riegel & Riegel, 1964). This is …

Lavenu et al.[Alzheimer Dis. Assoc. Disorder 5 (1999) 96] have shown that patients with
frontotemporal dementia (FTD) show impaired recognition of facial expressions. It is not …

Eighty-two younger and older adults participated in a two-part study of the decoding of
emotion through body movements and gestures. In the first part, younger and older adults …

To date, there have been few studies of emotion processing in those suffering from
Alzheimer's disease, yet this may have an important effect on the quality of life of both …

Difficulties in understanding emotional signals might have important implications for social
interactions in old age. In this study we investigated emotion perception skills involved in …

Abnormal decoding of social information has been associated with the conversion from
prodromal Alzheimer's disease (AD) to dementia. Since the distributed neural networks …

Objective: Emotional facial expression (EFE) decoding skills play a key role in interpersonal
relationships. Decoding errors have been described in several pathological conditions …