Event-related potentials associated with covert orientation of visual attention in Parkinson's disease
NeuropsychologiaPublished 1 December 1993
Margaret J. Wright, Gina Geffen, L. B. Geffen
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The results indicate that Parkinson patients, in addition to their motor deficits, process spatial cues more effortfully and slowly, have impaired response preparation, and process imperative stimuli more slowly.
Abstract
Event-related potentials (ERPs) were measured in a group of patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease and compared with a matched control group during a task involving covert orientation of visual attention. Central warning cues directed attention to the probable location of a lateralized signal that required a button-press response. Parkinson patients had enhanced post-cue P1 (at Oz) and P2 (at Cz) amplitudes, delayed N1 (at Oz) latencies, and diminished CNV amplitudes. Post-target amplitudes were similar to controls, except for an enhanced P1 to invalidly cued targets, and delayed N1 and P3 target latencies. These results indicate that Parkinson patients, in addition to their motor deficits, process spatial cues more effortfully and slowly, have impaired response preparation, and process imperative stimuli more slowly.
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