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ArticleSchizophrenia bulletin2016

Context Effects on Facial Affect Recognition in Schizophrenia and Autism: Behavioral and Eye-Tracking Evidence.

Noah J Sasson, Amy E Pinkham, Lauren P Weittenhiller, Daniel J Faso, Claire Simpson

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Article in Schizophrenia bulletin, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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51citing papers in PubMed, 6 pooled it
4.3field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

51 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 104 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Gaze and social functioning associations in autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Noah J SassonSchool of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX; nsasson@utdallas.edu.
Amy E PinkhamSchool of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX;
Lauren P WeittenhillerSchool of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX;
Daniel J FasoSchool of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX;
Claire SimpsonDepartment of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX.
The University of Texas at Dallas · USSouthern Methodist University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although Schizophrenia (SCZ) and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) share impairments in emotion recognition, the mechanisms underlying these impairments may differ. The current study used the novel "Emotions in Context" task to examine how the interpretation and visual inspection of facial affect is modulated by congruent and incongruent emotional contexts in SCZ and ASD. Both adults with SCZ (n= 44) and those with ASD (n= 21) exhibited reduced affect recognition relative to typically-developing (TD) controls (n= 39) when faces were integrated within broader emotional scenes but not when they were presented in isolation, underscoring the importance of using stimuli that better approximate real-world contexts. Additionally, viewing faces within congruent emotional scenes improved accuracy and visual attention to the face for controls more so than the clinical groups, suggesting that individuals with SCZ and ASD may not benefit from the presence of complementary emotional information as readily as controls. Despite these similarities, important distinctions between SCZ and ASD were found. In every condition, IQ was related to emotion-recognition accuracy for the SCZ group but not for the ASD or TD groups. Further, only the ASD group failed to increase their visual attention to faces in incongruent emotional scenes, suggesting a lower reliance on facial information within ambiguous emotional contexts relative to congruent ones. Collectively, these findings highlight both shared and distinct social cognitive processes in SCZ and ASD that may contribute to their characteristic social disabilities.

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Facial ExpressionSocial PerceptionAdultAffectAutism Spectrum DisorderEye Movement MeasurementsFacial RecognitionFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedSchizophreniaYoung Adultemotionemotion recognitionface processingsocial attentionsocial cognitionsocial motivation

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PMID26645375
PMCPMC4838097
OpenAlexW2202453598

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