Visuo-spatial interference affects the identification of emotional facial expressions in unmedicated Parkinson's patients

García-Rodríguez, Beatriz; Guillén, Carmen Casares; Jurado‐Barba, Rosa; Valladolid, Gabriel Rub io; Arjona, José Antonio Molina; Ellgring, Heiner

doi:10.1016/j.jns.2011.09.041

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“…The present findings corroborate those of our previous studies, 33 -36 demonstrating that neurodegenerative diseases are associated with deficits in emotional processing in complex stimuli contexts, particularly when processing 2 tasks of the same nature. These results challenge the proposed automaticity of emotional processing, 50 and show that cognitive resources are required to interpret the emotional content of stimuli, suggesting that emotional identification is a nonautomatic process dependent on cognitive state.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…The EFE identification was performed as described previously, thereby facilitating comparison with the present findings. 33 -36 In a forced-choice task, participants were presented 24 EFEs one at a time (4 representing each basic emotion: happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, and disgust), and they were asked to identify the emotion that best described the target stimulus. The participants were provided with a response list with the names of the 6 emotions and they were given as much time as necessary to make their decision.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, we predicted greater DT impairment when EFE identification was performed in parallel with a visuospatial rather than a semantic task (ie, when both tasks depend on the same cognitive resources). This hypothesis was based on our previous studies of emotional processing, 33 -36 which revealed that neurological patients performed worse than healthy elderly adults in a DT paradigm, demonstrating that deficits in EFE identification are due to pathological effects rather than those of aging.…”

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The Effects of Different Attentional Demands in the Identification of Emotional Facial Expressions in Alzheimer’s Disease

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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by the progressive impairment of mental and emotional functions, including the processing of emotional facial expression (EFE). Deficits in decoding EFE are relevant in social contexts in which information from 2 or more sources may be processed simultaneously. To assess the role of contextual stimuli on EFE processing in AD, we analyzed the ability of patients with AD and healthy elderly adults to identify EFE when simultaneously performing another task. Each of the 6 basic EFEs was presented to 15 patients with AD and 35 controls in a dual task paradigm that is in parallel with a visuospatial or a semantic task. Results show that the decoding of EFEs was impaired in patients with AD when they were simultaneously processing additional visuospatial information, yet not when they were performed in conjunction with a semantic task. These findings suggest that the capacity to interpret emotional states is impaired in AD.

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“…This deficit seems to involve the whole range of emotions (in particular negative emotions) with greater impact in the advanced stage of PD (Lin et al, 2016 ; Sprengelmeyer et al, 2003 ; Suzuki et al, 2006 ) compared with early stages of the disease (Dujardin et al, 2004 ; Hipp et al, 2014 ; Ibarretxe-Bilbao et al, 2009 ). However, several studies failed to confirm the presence of deficits in emotion processing in PD patients (Adolphs et al, 1998 ; Albuquerque et al, 2016 ; Breitenstein et al, 1998 ; García-Rodríguez et al, 2012 ; Pell & Leonard, 2005 ; Wabnegger et al, 2015 ).…”

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

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Ramat

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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 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.

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A Comprehensive Meta-analysis on Short-term and Working Memory Dysfunction in Parkinson’s Disease

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Neuropsychol Rev

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Visuo-spatial interference affects the identification of emotional facial expressions in unmedicated Parkinson's patients

Cited by 9 publications

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The Effects of Different Attentional Demands in the Identification of Emotional Facial Expressions in Alzheimer’s Disease

The Effects of Different Attentional Demands in the Identification of Emotional Facial Expressions in Alzheimer’s Disease

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

A Comprehensive Meta-analysis on Short-term and Working Memory Dysfunction in Parkinson’s Disease

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