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  • Psychiatry

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  • Relational memory, crucial for forming contextual associations, is impaired in schizophrenia.
  • The hippocampus, vital for relational memory, is structurally abnormal in schizophrenia.
  • The hippocampus's role in exploratory behavior complicates understanding of relational memory deficits.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether differences in visual exploration during encoding explain relational memory deficits in early psychosis.
  • To test the hypothesis that visual exploration patterns mediate task accuracy differences between healthy controls and psychosis patients.

Main Methods:

  • Studied visual exploration patterns during face-scene pair encoding in 66 healthy controls and 69 early psychosis patients.
  • Analyzed explicit test accuracy and eye-movement transitions (e.g., mouth to eyes) during encoding.

Main Results:

  • Early psychosis patients exhibited lower explicit test accuracy compared to controls.
  • Psychosis patients were less likely to transition from viewing the mouth to the eyes during encoding.
  • Observed differences in visual exploration patterns did not mediate the relationship between group and accuracy.

Conclusions:

  • Early psychosis is associated with abnormal patterns of binding items during memory encoding.
  • The findings suggest a primary deficit in relational binding, rather than solely diminished visual exploration, in early psychosis.
  • Further research is warranted to understand the mechanisms of abnormal relational binding in psychosis.