Psychiatry Research
Volume 133, Issue 2 , Pages 149-157, 28 February 2005

Effects of emotion and identity on facial affect processing in schizophrenia

  • Benoit Bediou

      Affiliations

    • Centre Hospitalier “Le Vinatier”, EA 3092 (IFNL, UCB Lyon1), Sce du Pr. DALERY, 95, Bd Pinel, 69 677, BRON Cedex, France
    • IFNL, Bât 213, Hôpital Neuro-Cardiologique, 59 Boulevard Pinel, 69394 Lyon Cedex 03, France
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Centre Hospitalier “Le Vinatier”, EA 3092 (IFNL, UCB Lyon 1), Sce du Pr. DALERY, 95, Bd Pinel, 69 677, BRON Cedex, France. Tel.: +33 4 37 91 51 00; fax: +33 4 37 91 51 02.
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  • Nicolas Franck

      Affiliations

    • Centre Hospitalier “Le Vinatier”, EA 3092 (IFNL, UCB Lyon1), Sce du Pr. DALERY, 95, Bd Pinel, 69 677, BRON Cedex, France
    • UMR 5015 CNRS, Institut des Sciences Cognitives, 67 Bd Pinel, 69675 Bron, France
    • IFNL, Bât 213, Hôpital Neuro-Cardiologique, 59 Boulevard Pinel, 69394 Lyon Cedex 03, France
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  • Mohamed Saoud

      Affiliations

    • Centre Hospitalier “Le Vinatier”, EA 3092 (IFNL, UCB Lyon1), Sce du Pr. DALERY, 95, Bd Pinel, 69 677, BRON Cedex, France
    • IFNL, Bât 213, Hôpital Neuro-Cardiologique, 59 Boulevard Pinel, 69394 Lyon Cedex 03, France
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  • Jean-Yves Baudouin

      Affiliations

    • UMR 5015 CNRS, Institut des Sciences Cognitives, 67 Bd Pinel, 69675 Bron, France
    • IFNL, Bât 213, Hôpital Neuro-Cardiologique, 59 Boulevard Pinel, 69394 Lyon Cedex 03, France
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  • Guy Tiberghien

      Affiliations

    • UMR 5015 CNRS, Institut des Sciences Cognitives, 67 Bd Pinel, 69675 Bron, France
    • IFNL, Bât 213, Hôpital Neuro-Cardiologique, 59 Boulevard Pinel, 69394 Lyon Cedex 03, France
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  • Jean Daléry

      Affiliations

    • Centre Hospitalier “Le Vinatier”, EA 3092 (IFNL, UCB Lyon1), Sce du Pr. DALERY, 95, Bd Pinel, 69 677, BRON Cedex, France
    • IFNL, Bât 213, Hôpital Neuro-Cardiologique, 59 Boulevard Pinel, 69394 Lyon Cedex 03, France
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  • Thierry d'Amato

      Affiliations

    • Centre Hospitalier “Le Vinatier”, EA 3092 (IFNL, UCB Lyon1), Sce du Pr. DALERY, 95, Bd Pinel, 69 677, BRON Cedex, France
    • IFNL, Bât 213, Hôpital Neuro-Cardiologique, 59 Boulevard Pinel, 69394 Lyon Cedex 03, France

Received 5 July 2004; accepted 14 August 2004.

Abstract 

We used facial affect labeling and matching tasks to study effects of (1) emotion and (2) identity on facial affect processing in patients with remitted schizophrenia (n=30) compared with healthy controls (n=30). The patients (1) had a specific deficit for labeling facial affects of sadness and anger but not happiness, disgust and fear; they (2) performed as well as controls in matching facial affects in one face but were impaired in matching facial affects in two different faces. The patients' impairment in facial affect processing may be emotion-specific. The effects of identity on facial affect processing are discussed in the light of several hypotheses (a deficit of context processing, a global–local processing impairment or a selective attention deficit), and may be related to frontal, prefrontal or amygdala dysfunctions.

Keywords: Emotional faces, Selective attention, Global–local, Context

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PII: S0165-1781(04)00292-6

doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2004.08.008

Psychiatry Research
Volume 133, Issue 2 , Pages 149-157, 28 February 2005

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