Automatic and controlled attentional orienting toward emotional faces in patients with Parkinson’s disease
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Published:2023-02-09
Issue:2
Volume:23
Page:371-382
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ISSN:1530-7026
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Container-title:Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci
Author:
Righi StefaniaORCID, Gronchi Giorgio, Ramat Silvia, Gavazzi Gioele, Cecchi Francesca, Viggiano Maria Pia
Abstract
AbstractParkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative motor disorder that can associate with deficits in cognitive and emotional processing. In particular, PD has been reported to be mainly associated with defects in executive control and orienting attentional systems. The deficit in emotional processing mainly emerged in facial expression recognition. It is possible that the defects in emotional processing in PD may be secondary to other cognitive impairments, such as attentional deficits. This study was designed to systematically investigate the different weight of automatic and controlled attentional orienting mechanisms implied in emotional selective attention in PD. To address our purpose, we assessed drug-naïve PD patients and age-matched healthy controls with two dot-probe tasks that differed for stimuli duration. Automatic and controlled attentions were evaluated with stimuli lasting 100 ms and 500 ms, respectively. Furthermore, we introduced an emotion recognition task to investigate the performance in explicit emotion classification. The stimuli used in both the tasks dot-probe and emotion recognition were expressive faces displaying neutral, disgusted, fearful, and happy expressions.Our results showed that in PD patients, compared with healthy controls, there was 1) an alteration of automatic and controlled attentional orienting toward emotional faces in both the dot-probe tasks (with short and long durations), and 2) no difference in the emotion recognition task. These findings suggest that, from the early stages of the disease, PD can yield specific deficits in implicit emotion processing task (i.e., dot-probe task) despite a normal performance in explicit tasks that demand overt emotion recognition.
Funder
Università degli Studi di Firenze
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Behavioral Neuroscience,Cognitive Neuroscience
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