A comparison between different diagnostic groups of total laugh counts per conversation. On the average, participants with AD, bvFTD and rtFTD laughed less often than healthy controls. AD, Alzheimer’s disease; bvFTD, behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia; nfvPPA, non-fluent variant primary progressive aphasia; rtFTD, right temporal variant frontotemporal dementia; svPPA, semantic variant of primary progressive aphasia.