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Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Psychiatry, schizotypy, configural processing, face processing, N170, P100, EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, FACIAL AFFECT RECOGNITION, INTERSTIMULUS PERCEPTUAL VARIANCE, SCHIZOPHRENIC-PATIENTS, EMOTION RECOGNITION, EARLY-STAGE, PERSONALITY-DISORDER, PSYCHOTIC SYMPTOMS, BODY PERCEPTION, DEFICITS, 1103 Clinical Sciences, 1117 Public Health and Health Services, 1701 Psychology, 3202 Clinical sciences

Abstract:

Face processing impairment in schizophrenia appears to be underpinned by poor configural (as opposed to feature-based) processing; however, few studies have sought to characterize this impairment electrophysiologically. Given the sensitivity of event-related potentials to antipsychotic medications, and the potential for neurophysiological abnormalities to serve as vulnerability markers for schizophrenia, a handful of studies have investigated early visual P100 and face-selective N170 in "at risk" populations. However, this is the first known neurophysiological investigation of configural face processing in a non-clinical schizotypal sample.