Social perception and early visual processing in schizophrenia

Mark J. Sergi; Michael F. Green

doi:10.1016/s0920-9964(01)00405-4

Social perception and early visual processing in schizophrenia

Mark J. Sergi, Michael F. Green

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Abstract

Persons with schizophrenia experience deficits in social cognition - the cognitive processes involved in how people perceive and interpret information about themselves, others, and social situations. These deficits may be related to the neurocognitive impairments often experienced by persons with schizophrenia. Our primary objective was to examine associations between social perception and early visual processing in schizophrenia. Our secondary objective was to examine whether outpatients with schizophrenia and healthy persons differ in social perception. Forty outpatients with schizophrenia and 30 healthy persons completed a measure of social perception (the Half-Profile of Nonverbal Sensitivity), visual masking procedures, and ratings of positive and negative symptoms. Within patients, performance on visual masking procedures was related to performance on the Half-Profile of Nonverbal Sensitivity. Patients with schizophrenia and the healthy persons differed significantly in their performance on the Half-Profile of Nonverbal Sensitivity, but this difference became nonsignificant when education was a covariate. These findings suggest that social perception in schizophrenia is related to very early aspects of visual processing.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	233-241
Number of pages	9
Journal	Schizophrenia Research
Volume	59
Issue number	2-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/s0920-9964(01)00405-4
State	Published - 1 Feb 2003
Externally published	Yes

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Funding Information:
This research was supported by Dr. Sergi's Young Investigator Award from the National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD #019503) and Dr. Green's grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH #MH43292). The authors wish to thank Kimmy Kee, PhD, Mary Jane Robertson, MS, Mark McGee, BA, Liam Zaidel, BA, Debbie Doran, BA, and Robert Holaway, BA for their assistance with the collection and coding of data. Data analyses were conducted by Sun Hwang, MS, M.P.H., Jim Mintz, PhD, and Mel Widawski, MS of the Methodological and Statistical Support Unit of the UCLA Clinical Research Center for Schizophrenia and Psychiatric Rehabilitation.

Keywords

Early visual processing
Masking
Neurocognition
Schizophrenia
Social cognition
Social perception

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