Slower access to visual awareness but otherwise intact implicit perception of emotional faces in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Psychology and Human Sciences Research Centre, University of Derby, Derby, United Kingdom;2. Department of Psychology and Maryland Neuroimaging Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States;1. Clinical Neuroscience Lab, Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland;2. Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King''s College London, United Kingdom |
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Abstract: | Schizophrenia-spectrum disorders are characterized by deficits in social domains. Extant research has reported an impaired ability to perceive emotional faces in schizophrenia. Yet, it is unclear if these deficits occur already in the access to visual awareness. To investigate this question, 23 people with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder and 22 healthy controls performed a breaking continuous flash suppression task with fearful, happy, and neutral faces. Response times were analysed with generalized linear mixed models. People with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders were slower than controls in detecting faces, but did not show emotion-specific impairments. Moreover, happy faces were detected faster than neutral and fearful faces, across all participants. Although caution is needed when interpreting the main effect of group, our findings may suggest an elevated threshold for visual awareness in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, but an intact implicit emotion perception. Our study provides a new insight into the mechanisms underlying emotion perception in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders. |
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Keywords: | Schizophrenia Facial expression Continuous flash suppression Visual perception Implicit emotion perception |
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