Open AccessWhat you see is what you get: visual scanning failures of naturalistic social scenes in schizophrenia
Author(s) -
Gaurav H. Patel,
Sophie C. Arkin,
Daniel Ruiz-Betancourt,
Heloise M. DeBaun,
Nicole E. Strauss,
Laura P. Bartel,
Jack Grinband,
Antı́gona Martı́nez,
Rebecca Berman,
David A. Leopold,
Daniel C. Javitt
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
psychological medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.857
H-Index - 209
eISSN - 1469-8978
pISSN - 0033-2917
DOI - 10.1017/s0033291720001646
Subject(s) - psychology , social cognition , cognitive psychology , cognition , facial expression , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , perception , visual perception , developmental psychology , audiology , neuroscience , communication , psychiatry , medicine
Impairments in social cognition contribute significantly to disability in schizophrenia patients (SzP). Perception of facial expressions is critical for social cognition. Intact perception requires an individual to visually scan a complex dynamic social scene for transiently moving facial expressions that may be relevant for understanding the scene. The relationship of visual scanning for these facial expressions and social cognition remains unknown.