Relative to their young counterparts, older adults are poorer at recognizing facial
expressions. A 2008 meta-analysis of 17 facial emotion recognition data sets showed that …

The field of nonverbal communication (NVC) has a long history involving many cue
modalities, including face, voice, body, touch, and interpersonal space; different levels of …

Face masks have proven to be key to slowing down the SARS-Cov2 virus spread in the
COVID-19 pandemic context. However, wearing face masks is not devoid of “side-effects”, at …

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic will have a high impact on older adults
and people with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. Social cognition enables the …

Although theory of mind (ToM) has been extensively explored in aging, few studies have
used the same tool to simultaneously assess and compare its cognitive and affective …

Prior research indicates that there may be age-related differences in visual attention to
emotional faces, and that this might contribute to older adults' difficulties perceiving …

Emotions are one of the most basic psychophysio logical reactions existing in the human
being. Its study is relatively recent; it was in 1971 when psy chologist Ekman established six …

Objective Facial emotion recognition (FER) is a component of social cognition and important
to interpersonal relations. Therefore, tasks have been developed to assess this skill in …

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a clinically and genetically heterogeneous disorder. To
which extent genetic aberrations dictate clinical presentation remains elusive. We …

Background: Facial emotion recognition (FER) is primarily and severely impaired in
individuals with the behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) and is often mildy …