ArticleSchizophrenia bulletin2026
Comparative Analysis of Social Cognitive and Neurocognitive Performance Across Autism and Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders.
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- Different effects of social cognitive skills training in schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorder: A rater-blinded, multicenter, randomized controlled trial.Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2026Trial
- Comparative profiles of anomalous self-experiences and social cognition in clinical high risk for psychosis and autism spectrum disorder.Schizophrenia research. Cognition · 2026Article
- Current applications of virtual reality in assessing social cognitive functions: a review.Cognitive processing · 2026Review
- Transdiagnostic Profiles of BOLD Signal Variability in Autism and Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders: Associations With Cognition and Functioning.Human brain mapping · 2026Article
- Commentary on Ziermans, Hadjúk, Pinkham et al. "Call to action on social cognition measures in clinical research" and on Happé's commentary to the call to action.Schizophrenia research. Cognition · 2026Article
- Opposite sides of different coins: near-diametrical opposition of physiological indices of reduced accuracy of face emotion recognition in schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorders.Frontiers in neuroimaging · 2026Article
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Abstract
background and hypothesisSocial cognitive and neurocognitive performance is impacted in autism and schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSDs). Here, we compared social cognitive and neurocognitive performance across a large transdiagnostic sample of participants with autism, SSDs, and typically developing controls (TDCs). STUDY
designParticipants (total N = 584; autism N = 100, SSDs N = 275, TDCs N = 209; aged 16-55 years; 61% male assigned at birth) completed lower-level (eg, emotion processing) and higher-level (eg, theory of mind) social cognitive tasks, the MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery, and a measure of social functioning. Nonparametric groupwise comparisons were undertaken, adjusting for age and sex, and within-group correlations were used to examine associations between social cognition, neurocognition, and social functioning. STUDY
resultsAutistic and SSD groups performed worse than TDCs on lower- and higher-level social cognitive tasks, with few autism-SSD differences found. Autism and SSDs had lower neurocognitive scores than TDCs; SSDs demonstrated lower processing speed, working memory, verbal learning, and visual learning versus autism. Positive associations between social cognitive tasks and neurocognition were observed across groups, and self-reported measures of empathy were consistently correlated with social functioning.
conclusionsThis study represents the largest transdiagnostic comparison of both social cognition and neurocognition in an autism/SSD sample reported to date. Autistic participants and those with SSDs showed similar performance on lower- and higher-level social cognitive tasks relative to controls, while neurocognition was less impacted in autism versus SSDs. These findings underscore the importance of transdiagnostic research into the mechanisms underlying social cognitive deficits and highlight the potential for developing transdiagnostic interventions.
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