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  • Cognitive Psychology

Background:

  • Self-face recognition is often impaired in schizophrenia (SZ), typically assessed with cognitively demanding tasks.
  • Eye-tracking offers a naturalistic method to study face processing by recording visual exploration patterns.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate self-face recognition deficits in schizophrenia using eye-tracking methodology.
  • To compare visual scan paths and recognition abilities between patients with SZ and healthy controls.

Main Methods:

  • Monitored visual scan paths of 20 patients with SZ and 20 healthy controls using eye-tracking.
  • Presented morphed self, famous, and unknown faces during passive exploration and active recognition tasks.
  • Recorded fixation location, number, and duration on facial features.

Main Results:

  • Patients with SZ exhibited fewer and longer fixations compared to controls.
  • Both groups demonstrated similar attention to relevant facial features.
  • No significant difference in face recognition accuracy was observed between groups in the active task.

Conclusions:

  • Patients with schizophrenia can explore faces and focus on salient features comparably to controls.
  • Schizophrenia patients demonstrate intact self-face recognition ability when cognitive demands are low.
  • Eye-tracking provides valuable insights into the visual processing of faces in schizophrenia.