Sensitivity to Emotion Specified in Facial Expressions and the Impact of Aging and Alzheimer's Disease

This thesis describes a program of research that investigated the sensitivity of healthy young adults, healthy older adults and individuals with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) to happiness, sadness and fear emotion specified in facial expressions. In particular, the research investigated the sensitivity o...

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Main Author: McLellan, Tracey Lee
Language:en
Published: University of Canterbury. Psychology 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1979