Impaired recognition of communicative interactions from biological motion in schizophrenia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients with schizophrenia are deficient in multiple aspects of social cognition, including biological motion perception. In the present study we investigated the ability to read social information from point-light stimuli in schizophrenia.

Methodology/principal findings

Participants with paranoid schizophrenia and healthy controls were presented with a biological motion task depicting point-light actions of two agents either engaged in a communicative interaction, or acting independently of each other. For each stimulus, participants were asked to decide whether the two agents were communicating vs. acting independently of each other (task A), and to select the correct action description among five response alternatives (task B). Participants were also presented

SUBMITTER: Okruszek L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4321989 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature