What you see is what you get: visual scanning failures of naturalistic social scenes in schizophrenia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

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.

Methods

In 39 SzP and 27 healthy controls (HC), we used eye-tracking to examine the relationship between performance on The Awareness of Social Inference Test (TASIT), which tests social cognition using naturalistic video clips of social situations, and visual scanning, measuring each individual's relative to the mean

SUBMITTER: Patel GH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7751380 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature