Specificity of facial emotion recognition impairments in patients with multi-episode schizophrenia

Patients with schizophrenia show impairments in social information processing, such as recognising facial emotions and face identity.The aim of this study was to explore whether these impairments represent specific deficits or are part of a more general cognitive dysfunction.Forty-two patients with schizophrenia and 42 matched controls were compared on facial emotion and face identity recognition versus (non-social) abstract pattern recognition,...