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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Psychiatry
  • Social Psychology

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  • Schizophrenia is associated with deficits in recognizing facial emotions, particularly negative valence, impacting social functioning.
  • Understanding the nature of mental representations in schizophrenia is crucial for elucidating the underlying mechanisms of these deficits.
  • Previous research has successfully employed reverse correlation to visualize mental representations in healthy individuals.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the applicability of the reverse correlation technique for visualizing mental representations in schizophrenia patients.
  • To explore the mental representations of trustworthiness, a key social face evaluation dimension, in individuals with schizophrenia.

Main Methods:

  • Employed reverse correlation by presenting noise-distorted faces to schizophrenia patients (n=23) and healthy controls (n=34).
  • Participants classified faces as 'trustworthy', 'untrustworthy', or 'neutral'.
  • Visualizations of mental representations were generated by averaging noise patterns based on classifications and rated by an independent sample.

Main Results:

  • Schizophrenia patients performed the reverse correlation task comparably to controls in terms of response times and biases.
  • Generated visualizations accurately reflected the intended constructs (trustworthiness) for both patient and control groups.
  • No significant differences were found in the trustworthiness ratings of visualizations between patients and controls.

Conclusions:

  • The reverse correlation technique is applicable and effective for visualizing mental representations in schizophrenia patients.
  • This study provides a proof of principle for using reverse correlation to investigate the nature of social cognition deficits in schizophrenia.