Fig. 2

Emotion Recognition Task (ERT). The participants had to recognise facial expressions of six different emotions presented for 200 ms. Recognition of basic emotions, such as happiness and sadness, was not significantly different between patients and controls, whereas emotions considered more complex, including surprise, anger, disgust and fear, appeared significantly more difficult for patients than for controls. Percentage of correct recognition of each of the six emotions listed. NS = not significant, * = p < 0.05