Abstract
Deficits in facial identity recognition and its association with poor social functioning are well documented in schizophrenia, but none of these studies have assessed the role of the body in these processes. Recent research in healthy populations shows that the body is also an important source of information in identity recognition, and the current study aimed to thoroughly examine identity recognition from both faces and bodies in schizophrenia. Sixty-five individuals with schizophrenia and forty-nine healthy controls completed three conditions of an identity matching task in which they attempted to match unidentified persons in unedited photos of faces and bodies, edited photos showing faces only, or edited photos showing bodies only. Results revealed global deficits in identity recognition in individuals with schizophrenia (ηp2 = 0.068), but both groups showed better recognition from bodies alone as compared to faces alone (ηp2 = 0.573), suggesting that the ability to extract useful information from bodies when identifying persons may remain partially preserved in schizophrenia. Further research is necessary to understand the relationship between face/body processing, identity recognition, and functional outcomes in individuals with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 100307 |
Journal | Schizophrenia Research: Cognition |
Volume | 36 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 2024 |
Funding
This study was funded by internal support to AEP from The University of Texas at Dallas and MH was supported by the Slovak Research and Development Agency , grant no.: APVV 20-0185 .
Keywords
- Bodies
- Faces
- Identity recognition
- Schizophrenia
- Signal detection theory
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Psychiatry and Mental health