Emotional Processing Impairments in Apathetic Patients with Parkinson’s Disease: An ERP Study in Early Time Windows
Table 2
Behavioural results in the emotional face categorization task for PD patients and HCs.
Variables
Apathetic group
Nonapathetic group
HC
or F
ACC (%)
Positive
91.6 (3.9)
91.8 (3.7)
92.2 (2.4)
0.286, 0.867
Neutral
76.9 (4.5)
78.5 (3.6)
87.7 (2.8)
36.773
<0.001
Negative
72.0 (7.5)
79.3 (9.1)
86.9 (4.8)
23.601
<0.001
RT (ms)
Positive
698.73 (104.49)
704.20 (106.98)
656.76 (182.53)
0.760
0.472
Neutral
826.67 (112.77)
813.92 (114.24)
704.33 (134.87)
6.161
0.004
Negative
905.93 (149.60)
889.64 (183.75)
728.52 (134.44)
7.568
0.001
The behavioural results of the apathetic PD group, nonapathetic PD group, and HC group are expressed as mean (SD). ACC = accuracy (%); RT = reaction time (ms).
