Psychophysical study of face identity discrimination in schizophrenia: association with facial morphology

• Published in: Cognitive neuropsychiatry Vol. 21; no. 6; pp. 525 - 538
• Main Authors: Ekstrom, Tor, Maher, Stephen, Chen, Yue
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Routledge 01.11.2016; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Adult; Analysis of Variance; Case-Control Studies; Discrimination (Psychology); Face; Face perception; Facial Recognition; Female; gender; Humans; identity; Male; Males; Middle Aged; Morphology; Pattern Recognition, Visual - physiology; Perceptual Disorders - etiology; race; Schizophrenia; Schizophrenia - complications; Schizophrenic Psychology; Face perception; schizophrenia; gender; race; identity

Introduction: Identifying individual identities from faces is crucial for social functioning. In schizophrenia, previous studies showed mixed results as to whether face identity discrimination is compromised. How a social category factor (such as gender and race) affects schizophrenia patients'...