Emotional valence may influence memory performance for visual artworks in Parkinson's disease.
Nicoletta CiccarelliSonia Di TellaMaria Rita Lo MonacoAngelo CarfìElisabetta SerafiniValentina Delle DonneMaria Caterina SilveriPublished in: Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (2019)
Recognition of emotional stimuli was more accurate compared to non-emotional stimuli in AD, left-sided PD and HC; right-sided PD did not show sensitivity to the emotional valence of the stimuli suggesting the involvement of the nigrostriatal, mesocortical and mesolimbic circuitry of the left hemisphere in the emotional-reward system related to the aesthetic experience.
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