OBJECTIVE: Deficits in the processing of @entity2652 have been reported extensively in @entity1 with @entity161 . To explore whether restricted attention is the cause of impaired emotion processing in these @entity1 , we examined visual attention through tracking eye movements in response to emotional and neutral face stimuli in a group of @entity1 with @entity161 and healthy individuals. We also examined the correlation between visual attention allocation and symptoms severity in our @entity1 group. METHOD: Thirty adult @entity1 with @entity161 and 30 matched healthy controls participated in this study. Visual attention data were recorded while @entity1 passively viewed emotional-neutral face pairs for 500 ms. The relationship between the visual attention and symptoms severity were assessed by the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) in the @entity161 group. Repeated Measures ANOVAs were used to compare the groups. RESULTS: Comparing the number of fixations made during face-pairs presentation, we found that @entity1 with @entity161 made fewer fixations on faces, regardless of the expression of the face. Analysis of the number of fixations on negative-neutral pairs also revealed that the @entity1 made fewer fixations on both neutral and negative faces. Analysis of number of fixations on positive-neutral pairs only showed more fixations on positive relative to neutral expressions in both groups. We found no correlations between visual attention pattern to faces and symptom severity in @entity161 @entity1 . CONCLUSION: The results of this study suggest that the @entity51 in @entity161 is related to decreased attention to face stimuli. Finding of no difference in visual attention for positive-neutral face pairs between the groups is in line with studies that have shown increased ability to positive emotional perception in these @entity1 .

Visual attention to emotional face in XXXX : an eye tracking study.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['participants', 'patients', 'patient'] @entity51 :: ('MESH:D009461', 'Disease') :: ['facial recognition deficit'] @entity161 :: ('MESH:D012559', 'Disease') :: ['schizophrenia', 'schizophrenic'] @entity2652 :: ('MESH:D005148', 'Disease') :: ['facial emotions']
@entity161 :: (MESH:D012559,Disease) :: ['schizophrenia']
