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ArticleMolecular psychiatry2026

Multivariate relationships between social cognitive performance and functional connectivity during task and rest across schizophrenia spectrum disorders and healthy controls.

Lindsay D Oliver, Ju-Chi Yu, Colin Hawco, Navona Calarco, Vinh Tan, Iska Moxon-Emre, Sunny X Tang, James M Gold, George Foussias, Pamela DeRosse and 5 more

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Article in Molecular psychiatry, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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15 authors.

Lindsay D OliverCampbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2163-7257
Ju-Chi YuCampbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Colin HawcoCampbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Navona CalarcoCampbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4391-0472
Vinh TanCampbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Iska Moxon-EmreCampbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Sunny X TangDivision of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, Division of Northwell Health, Glen Oaks, NY, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4001-8120
James M GoldMaryland Psychiatric Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
George FoussiasCampbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6220-519X
Pamela DeRosseDepartment of Psychology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA.
Miklos ArgyelanDivision of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, Division of Northwell Health, Glen Oaks, NY, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7254-1776
Robert W BuchananMaryland Psychiatric Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Anil K MalhotraDivision of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, Division of Northwell Health, Glen Oaks, NY, USA.
Aristotle N VoineskosCampbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada. aristotle.voineskos@camh.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0156-0395
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U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) 1/3R01MH102324-01U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) 3/3R01MH102318-01
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Social cognitive deficits are common and impact functional outcomes in people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSDs). Functional brain networks during task and rest show complex relationships with cognition. We aimed to identify relationships between social and non-social cognitive performance and functional connectivity during social processing and at rest across individuals with SSDs and healthy controls. Adults (N = 352; 195 SSDs, 157 controls) completed functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during the Empathic Accuracy (EA) task and rest, and cognitive assessments. Partial least squares correlation was used to identify latent dimensions (LDs) capturing multivariate relationships between functional connectivity and cognitive measures, evaluated using permutation testing, bootstrapping, and cross-validation. Two significant EA LDs were identified, explaining 73.6 and 9.1% of the variance. EA LD1 captured an association between better performance across cognitive measures and positive connectivity across networks implicated in processing dynamic multimodal and social stimuli. EA LD2 reflected an association between worse EA task performance and stronger positive connectivity between networks implicated in language and social processing. One significant resting-state LD was identified, explaining 85.6% of the variance and capturing an association between better overall cognition and visual, somatomotor, and subcortical connectivity, driven more by the SSD group. Overlapping and divergent connectivity patterns appear to covary with cognitive performance during social processing versus rest across SSDs and healthy controls. Our results support the value of task-based fMRI to identify dimensional functional connectivity patterns associated with particular social cognitive abilities, whereas resting-state connectivity may reflect broader relationships with cognition.

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SchizophreniaSocial CognitionAdultBrainBrain MappingCognitionEmpathyFemaleHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleMiddle AgedNeural PathwaysNeuropsychological TestsRestSchizophrenic Psychology

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