Automatic and controlled attentional orienting toward emotional faces in patients with Parkinson's disease.

ABSTRACT: Parkinson'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 diff

SUBMITTER: Righi S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10050058 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature