In their own words: An exploration of primary children's participation in a dementia education program.

Issue Addressed: As the population ages the prevalence of dementia increases and children are increasingly experiencing family members and older friends living with dementia. Unfortunately, stigma about living with dementia is common. Increasing understanding about dementia among children has the potential to reduce this stigma.

Dementia knowledge, art, research and education - Teaching primary school children about dementia.

Issue Addressed: To develop, implement and evaluate the impact of a short education intervention on the understanding of dementia through visual art by primary school-aged children.

Methods: A series of three lessons were developed in consultation with a local schoolteacher and community artists and taught in a local primary school. Stage 2 students (8-10 years old) created an artwork about memory, learned about dementia and adapted their artworks to represent their developing understanding of dementia.

Factors contributing to individual differences in facial expression categorisation.

Individuals vary in perceptual accuracy when categorising facial expressions, yet it is unclear how these individual differences in non-clinical population are related to cognitive processing stages at facial information acquisition and interpretation. We tested 104 healthy adults in a facial expression categorisation task, and correlated their categorisation accuracy with face-viewing gaze allocation and personal traits assessed with Autism Quotient, anxiety inventory and Self-Monitoring Scale. The gaze allocation had limited but emotion-specific impact on categorising expressions.