Impairments in biological motion perception reflect affective disturbance in individuals at clinical high-risk for psychosis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Social cognitive impairments are common in individuals at clinical high-risk (CHR) for psychosis. Emotion recognition, a key component of social cognition, has been extensively examined in the CHR population, primarily with facial emotion recognition tasks, which have consistently demonstrated impairments. However, we have a limited understanding of whether the perception of broad bodily movements, known as biological motion processing (BM), contributes to emotion recognition impairment in this population.

Methods

All participants completed the Point Light Walker (PLW) task, a paradigm that isolates body movement, to assess performance on BM processing. This study included 63 participants (34 CHR, 29 healthy controls (HC)). Symptom severity and functioning was mea

SUBMITTER: Parmacek SN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12555846 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature