Using dynamic point light display stimuli to assess gesture deficits in schizophrenia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Gesture deficits are ubiquitous in schizophrenia patients contributing to poor social communication and functional outcome. Given the dynamic nature of social communications, the current study aimed to explore the underlying socio-cognitive processes associated with point-light-displays (PLDs) of communicative gestures in the absence of any other confounding visual characteristics, and compare them to other well-established stimuli of gestures such as pictures by examining their association with symptom severity and motor-cognitive modalities.

Methods

We included 39-stable schizophrenia outpatients and 27-age-gender matched controls and assessed gesture processing using two tasks. The first task used static stimuli of pictures of a person performing a gesture. The

SUBMITTER: Pavlidou A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8866720 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature