ReviewFrontiers in human neuroscience2018
It Is Not Just in Faces! Processing of Emotion and Intention from Biological Motion in Psychiatric Disorders.
Review in Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
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.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
17 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.
- Reading body and face language in male schizophrenia.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- Impairments in biological motion perception reflect affective disturbance in individuals at clinical high-risk for psychosis.Schizophrenia research. Cognition · 2026Article
- Dynamic brain communication underlying face pareidolia in male schizophrenia.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Construction and validation of the Dalian emotional movement open-source set (DEMOS).Behavior research methods · 2023Article
- Do subtle cultural differences sculpt face pareidolia?Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2023Article
- Face pareidolia in male schizophrenia.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2022Article
- EmBody/EmFace as a new open tool to assess emotion recognition from body and face expressions.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Using dynamic point light display stimuli to assess gesture deficits in schizophrenia.Schizophrenia research. Cognition · 2022Article
- Emotion recognition dysfunction after anesthesia and cardiac surgery.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Kinematic dataset of actors expressing emotions.Scientific data · 2020Article
- Untangling the Ties Between Social Cognition and Body Motion: Gender Impact.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Social Perception and Interaction Database-A Novel Tool to Study Social Cognitive Processes With Point-Light Displays.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
- Recognition of Emotions From Facial Point-Light Displays.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Investigating Emotion in Malay, Australian and Iranian Individuals with and without Depression.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Anabolic androgenic steroid dependence is associated with impaired emotion recognition.Psychopharmacology · 2019Article
- Naturalistic Emotion Decoding From Facial Action Sets.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Perception of Threatening Intention Modulates Brain Processes to Body Actions: Evidence From Event-Related Potentials.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Social neuroscience offers a wide range of techniques that may be applied to study the social cognitive deficits that may underlie reduced social functioning-a common feature across many psychiatric disorders. At the same time, a significant proportion of research in this area has been conducted using paradigms that utilize static displays of faces or eyes. The use of point-light displays (PLDs) offers a viable alternative for studying recognition of emotion or intention inference while minimizing the amount of information presented to participants. This mini-review aims to summarize studies that have used PLD to study emotion and intention processing in schizophrenia (SCZ), affective disorders, anxiety and personality disorders, eating disorders and neurodegenerative disorders. Two main conclusions can be drawn from the reviewed studies: first, the social cognitive problems found in most of the psychiatric samples using PLD were of smaller magnitude than those found in studies presenting social information using faces or voices. Second, even though the information presented in PLDs is extremely limited, presentation of these types of stimuli is sufficient to elicit the disorder-specific, social cognitive biases (e.g., mood-congruent bias in depression, increased threat perception in anxious individuals, aberrant body size perception in eating disorders) documented using other methodologies. Taken together, these findings suggest that point-light stimuli may be a useful method of studying social information processing in psychiatry. At the same time, some limitations of using this methodology are also outlined.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.