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AuthorMegreya, Ahmed M.
Available date2021-06-03T10:07:40Z
Publication Date2016
Publication NameCognitive Neuropsychiatry
ResourceScopus
ISSN13546805
URIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13546805.2015.1133407
URIhttp://hdl.handle.net/10576/18538
AbstractIntroduction. Patients with schizophrenia have a large-scaled and severe cognitive impairment. This study examines whether a well-established deficit in face recognition in schizophrenia is a part of this general cognitive impairment or is specific to faces per se.Method. The differential deficit in matching upright faces as compared with two psychometrically matched control tasks (matching inverted faces and matching none-face objects) was assessed in two well-matched samples of schizophrenics (n = 40) and controls (n = 40).Results. Indicating a generalised cognitive deficit, schizophrenics were impaired in all tasks. Importantly, however, the deficit in matching upright faces was stronger in magnitude (15.6%) than the deficits in matching inverted faces (10.1%) and non-face objects (10.2%). Consistently, schizophrenics showed weaker face inversion effects, indicating a configural processing dysfunction.Conclusion. These results provide compelling evidence for a face-specific deficit in schizophrenia that may be associated with, but separable from, a generalised cognitive impairment. 2016 Taylor & Francis.
Languageen
PublisherRoutledge
Subjectconfigural processing
face perception
generalized deficit/deferential deficit
object perception
Schizophrenia
TitleFace perception in schizophrenia: A specific deficit
TypeArticle
Pagination60-72
Issue Number1
Volume Number21


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