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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neurology

Background:

  • Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is characterized by cognitive impairments, including deficits in semantic knowledge and executive function.
  • These cognitive changes can impact social cognition, specifically the ability to perceive and interpret emotions in others.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between specific cognitive impairments (semantic knowledge, executive function) and distinct aspects of emotion perception in individuals with FTD.
  • To differentiate how semantic and executive function deficits differentially affect emotion labeling and emotion tracking.

Main Methods:

  • A cohort of individuals with FTD (behavioral variant, non-fluent variant, semantic variant) and healthy controls (N=110) underwent neuropsychological testing.
  • Cognitive assessments included tests for semantic word knowledge and executive functions.
  • Emotion perception was evaluated using an emotion labeling task and an emotion tracking task involving film stimuli.

Main Results:

  • Reduced semantic word knowledge was significantly associated with lower accuracy in emotion labeling, but not emotion tracking.
  • Impaired executive function was linked to decreased accuracy in both emotion labeling and emotion tracking.
  • These associations remained significant after controlling for diagnosis, age, sex, global cognition, and dementia severity.

Conclusions:

  • Distinct cognitive processes underpin different facets of emotion perception in frontotemporal dementia.
  • Semantic knowledge is crucial for identifying specific emotions, whereas executive function is vital for both identifying and continuously tracking emotional states.
  • These findings highlight the complex interplay between cognitive deficits and social-emotional processing in FTD.