Objectifying Facial Expressivity Assessment of Parkinson’s Patients: Preliminary Study
Table 4
Statistical summary of physiological measures.
Variable
Stimuli
Control
PD
Sig.
Mean
SD
Mean
SD
LLS
Neutral#2
1.04
.34
1.16
.43
.71
Disgust#1
3.36
2.04
2.27
1.77
.26
Disgust#2
8.04
6.49
2.71
2.25
OO
Neutral#2
1.35
1.11
.94
.54
.81
Disgust#1
2.82
1.77
1.81
1.28
.32
Disgust#2
5.20
5.71
2.07
1.48
.13
HR
Neutral#2
1.72
2.77
2.76
—
—
Disgust#1
−.53
2.64
5.12
—
—
Disgust#2
2.22
5.53
5.65
—
—
HRV
Neutral#2
1.53
12.96
−7.65
—
—
Disgust#1
8.01
11.45
26.34
—
—
Disgust#2
14.86
35.64
14.92
—
—
The two groups are significantly different; that is, . “—” We did not compare the cardiac responses (i.e., and ) between groups, because due to technical failures we lost the ECG data for 10 participants and thus only 5 participants (4 controls and 1 PD) completed the ECG recording.
