Effects of Emotionally Affect Adult and Baby’ Photographs in Healthy Controls and Schizophrenic Patients Evaluating by Exploratory Eye Movements
| Autor: | Yasue Asaumi, Ryo Fujiki, Atsushi Yamamoto, Yoshihisa Shoji, Naohisa Uchimura, Kiichiro Morita, Chizuko Kawabe |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Adult
Male medicine.medical_specialty Visual perception Eye Movements genetic structures Emotions Mothers Audiology Affect (psychology) Cognition Schizophrenic Psychology Photography medicine Humans Crying Infant Eye movement General Medicine Gaze eye diseases Affect Case-Control Studies Laterality Schizophrenia Visual Perception Female sense organs medicine.symptom Psychology |
| Zdroj: | The Kurume Medical Journal. 58:27-33 |
| ISSN: | 1881-2090 0023-5679 |
| Popis: | The relationship between mother and baby is of fundamental importance in the development of cognitive function and emotion. In this study we investigated the effects of affective photographs of a mother and baby (crying or smiling faces) and other stimuli (neutral mother or baby faces) on visual cognitive function in schizophrenic patents. We recorded exploratory eye movements in 22 healthy controls and 22 age-matched schizophrenic patients. Total number of right and left field gaze points (right TNGP, left TNGP) in the visual fields were determined using an eye-mark recorder as subjects viewed affectively charged or neutral photographs (crying, smiling or neutral faces). Left TNGP for all mother photographs (crying, smiling or neutral) were significantly larger in controls than patients, and right TNGP for neutral mother photographs were significantly larger in controls than in patients. Right TNGP for photographs of smiling babies were significantly larger in controls than patients, and left TNGP for photographs of both smiling and crying babies were significantly larger in controls than patients. Within the patient group, right TNGP were significantly larger than left TNGP for all mother photographs (crying, smiling or neutral). Left TNGP for photographs of mothers and babies correlated negatively with negative symptom scores. These results suggest that exploratory eye movements when viewing emotionally laded twin stimuli such as photographs of a mother and baby are a useful marker of visual cognitive function in both healthy controls and schizophrenic patients. |
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