Visualizing mental representations in schizophrenia patients: A reverse correlation approach.

ABSTRACT: Schizophrenia patients have difficulties recognizing emotional states from faces, in particular those with negative valence, with severe consequences for daily life. What do these patients see in their minds eye, when they think of a face expressing a particular emotion or trait? The content of such mental representations can shed light into the nature of their deficits, but are usually inaccessible. For the first time, we explored the applicability of reverse correlation, which has been successfully used to visualize mental representations in healthy populations, to visualize mental representations in schizophrenia patients. We investigated mental representations of trustworthy faces, a primary dimension of social face evaluation that is highly correlated with valence. Patients (n 

SUBMITTER: Brinkman L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6454059 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature