Facial Affect Recognition by Patients with Schizophrenia Using Human Avatars.

ABSTRACT: People with schizophrenia have difficulty recognizing the emotions in the facial expressions of others, which affects their social interaction and functioning in the community. Static stimuli such as photographs have been used traditionally to examine deficiencies in the recognition of emotions in patients with schizophrenia, which has been criticized by some authors for lacking the dynamism that real facial stimuli have. With the aim of overcoming these drawbacks, in recent years, the creation and validation of virtual humans has been developed. This work presents the results of a study that evaluated facial recognition of emotions through a new set of dynamic virtual humans previously designed by the research team, in patients diagnosed of schizophrenia. The study included 56 stable pati

SUBMITTER: Muros NI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8124197 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature