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Facial Expression Processing Is Not Affected by Parkinson's Disease, but by Age-Related Factors

Authors
Derya, DilaraKang, JuneKwon, YoungWallraven, Christian
Issue Date
14-11월-2019
Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
Keywords
facial expressions; Parkinson' s disease; aging; conversational expressions; positivity; rating
Citation
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY, v.10
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Journal Title
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
Volume
10
URI
https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/61896
DOI
10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02458
ISSN
1664-1078
Abstract
The question whether facial expression processing may be impaired in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients so far has yielded equivocal results - existing studies, however, have focused on testing expression processing in recognition tasks with static images of six standard, emotional facial expressions. Given that non-verbal communication contains both emotional and non-emotional, conversational expressions and that input to the brain is usually dynamic, here we address the question of potential facial expression processing differences in a novel format: we test a range of conversational and emotional, dynamic facial expressions in three groups - PD patients (n = 20), age- and education-matched older healthy controls (n = 20), and younger adult healthy controls (n = 20). This setup allows us to address both effects of PD and age-related differences. We employed a rating task for all groups in which 12 rating dimensions were used to assess evaluative processing of 27 expression videos from six different actors. We found that ratings overall were consistent across groups with several rating dimensions (such as arousal or outgoingness) having a strong correlation with the expressions' motion energy content as measured by optic flow analysis. Most importantly, we found that the PD group did not differ in any rating dimension from the older healthy control group (HCG), indicating highly similar evaluation processing. Both older groups, however, did show significant differences for several rating scales in comparison with the younger adults HCG. Looking more closely, older participants rated negative expressions compared to the younger participants as more positive, but also as less natural, persuasive, empathic, and sincere. We interpret these findings in the context of the positivity effect and in-group processing advantages. Overall, our findings do not support strong processing deficits due to PD, but rather point to age-related differences in facial expression processing.
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