Social Cognition in PD

This dataset include the perfomance of 19 PD patients with cognitive decline, 27 cognitively preserved PD patients and 29 healthy control in social perception (static and dynamic emotional facial recognition), theory of mind, empathy and social behavior tasks. We also assess processing speed, executive functions, memory, language and visuospatial ability.

To assess social perception, we administered two emotional categorization tasks, one with 50 static (photograph) and another with 50 dynamic (videos) stimuli, showing facial expressions of happiness, sadness, fear, anger, and neutral face (10 of each emotion) on a computer screen and using the E-prime 2.0 program (Schneider, Eschmann, & Zuccolotto, 2002). To evaluate ToM, we administered the Spanish adaptation of the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET; Baron-Cohen et al., 2001).