Research Article

Event-Related Potentials Elicited by Face and Face Pareidolia in Parkinson’s Disease

Table 2

Mean peak amplitude (in μV ± SE) and latency (in ms ± SE) of N170, VPP, and N250 components.

GroupConditionN170VPPN250
LatencyAmplitudeLatencyAmplitudeLatencyAmplitude

PD patientsFace176.6 (1.83)−4.21 (0.77)173.9 (1.80)2.39 (0.76)223.5 (5.34)−0.92 (0.48)
Face pareidolia180.5 (1.61)−2.70 (0.68)173.2 (1.6)0.49 (0.47)227.3 (3.3)−1.83 (0.48)

HCsFace166.6 (0.95)−1.21 (0.36)169.0 (1.07)−0.31 (0.33)231.3 (2.17)−3.76 (0.5)
Face pareidolia175.4 (1.3)0.15 (0.37)168.0 (1.07)−0.41 (0.33)229.2 (2.60)−3.69 (0.52)

PD : Parkinson’s disease; HCs : healthy controls; SE = standard error.