The emotional paradox: Dissociation between explicit and implicit processing of emotional prosody in schizophrenia

Kinematics matters: A new eye-tracking investigation of animated triangles

“…Individuals with schizophrenia have difficulties in the attribution of intentions to others in comic strips (Brunet, Sarfati, & Hardy-Bayle, 2003;Sarfati, HardyBayle, Brunet, & Widlocher, 1999, Zalla et al, 2006, in videos depicting ecological social situations (Bazin et al, 2009;Mehl et al, 2010;Montag et al, 2011) and in Frith-Happé animations (Horan et al, 2009;Koelkebeck et al, 2010;Russell, Reynaud, Herba, Morris, & Corcoran, 2006). In a context where the distinction between implicit and explicit processing is of high interest in schizophrenia (e.g., Linden et al, 2009;Roux, Christophe, & Passerieux, 2010;van't Wout et al, 2007), the eye-tracking technique could help address the question whether deficits in social perception lie in the implicit processing of animate motion or in the ability to make more explicit judgements about such displays.…”

Reduced neural activity of the prefrontal cognitive control circuitry during response inhibition to negative words in people with schizophrenia

“…[7][8][9][10][11][12] There is also an abundance of evidence of emotional processing abnormalities in people with schizophrenia, 13 with impairments shown during emotion recognition, 14 emotional memory 15 and the experience of affective states. 16,17 For instance, a large number of studies have reported evidence of dysfunction in the recognition of facial expressions in people with schizophrenia, especially for negative emotions 18,19 (for a recent review, see Morris and colleagues suggests that people with schizophrenia have similar difficulties when producing and interpreting the emotional content of linguistic material, 21,22 which again suggests more impairment for negative material. 23 There is evidence of reduced activation in brain regions associated with emotional processing, such as the orbitofrontal and cingulate cortices, amygdala and insula, during emotion processing in people with schizophrenia.…”

Affective processing in positive schizotypy: Loose control of social-emotional information

“…The extent of the priming effect by negative emotional information was positively correlated with the patients' levels of positive schizophrenic symptoms (Hooker et al, 2011). Patients with schizophrenia, in particular patients with prominent positive symptoms (Alba-Ferrera, de Erausquin, Hirnstein, Weis, & Hausmann, 2013) were also found to be more susceptible to interfering incidental emotional prosody processing than healthy controls (Alba-Ferrera et al, 2013;Roux, Christophe, & Passerieux, 2010). Moreover, patients with schizophrenia self-rated their susceptibility to emotional contagion with negative emotions in everyday life higher than healthy individuals (Falkenberg, Bartels, & Wild, 2008).…”