Impaired recognition of body expressions in the behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia
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Progressive deterioration of social cognition and emotion processing are core symptoms of the behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD). Here we investigate whether bvFTD is also associated with impaired recognition of static (Experiment 1) and dynamic (Experiment 2) bodily expressions. In addition, we compared body expression processing with processing of static (Experiment 3) and dynamic (Experiment 4) facial expressions, as well as with face identity processing (Experiment 5). The results reveal that bvFTD is associated with impaired recognition of static and dynamic bodily and facial expressions, while identity processing was intact. No differential impairments were observed regarding motion (static vs. dynamic) or category (body vs. face). Within the bvFTD group, we observed a significant partial correlation between body and face expression recognition, when controlling for performance on the identity task. Voxel-Based Morphometry (VBM) analysis revealed that body emotion recognition was positively associated with gray matter volume in a region of the inferior frontal gyrus (pars orbitalis/triangularis). The results are in line with a supramodal emotion recognition deficit in bvFTD.
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bvFTD showed reduced ability to recognize emotions depicted on faceless whole bodies, e.g. the Bodily Expressive Action Stimulus Test.
“In addition to impaired facial expression recognition, bvFTD also showed reduced ability to recognize emotions depicted on (faceless) whole bodies, e.g. the Bodily Expressive Action Stimulus Test (BEAST) (Van den Stock et al. , 2015).”
From Recommendations to distinguish behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia from psychiatric disorders (2020) · cites this paper as Van den Stock et al. , 2015
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- Authors
- Van den Stock, J., De Winter, F.-L., de Gelder, B., Rangarajan, J. R., Cypers, G., Maes, F., Sunaert, S., Goffin, K., Vandenberghe, R., & Vandenbulcke, M.
- Affiliations
- iMinds (BE)
- Onze Lieve Vrouwziekenhuis Hospital (BE)
- Universitair Ziekenhuis Leuven (BE)
- KU Leuven (BE)
- ORCID
- Venue
- Neuropsychologia
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2015-08
- Volume
- 75
- Pages
- 496-504
- ISSN
- 0028-3932 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W843013333
- Cited by
- 48
- References
- 60
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 9 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 2
- FWCI
- 4.61
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- lirias.kuleuven.be
- Licence
- Locations
- Neuropsychologia (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Research Publications (Maastricht University) (publishedVersion)
- Lirias (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Research Publications (Maastricht University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen (FWO)
- Foundation for Alzheimer Research (SAO-FRA P#14013)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Keywords
- behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia, facial expression recognition, emotion recognition, social cognition, face identity processing, gray matter volume, inferior frontal gyrus
- MeSH terms
- Facial Recognition, Aged, Brain, Emotions, Facial Expression, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Social Perception, Recognition, Psychology, Frontotemporal Dementia
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