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Relationship between abstract thinking and eye gaze pattern in patients with schizophrenia

Authors
 Jooyoung Oh  ;  Ji-Won Chun  ;  Jung Suk Lee  ;  Jae-Jin Kim 
Citation
 BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN FUNCTIONS, Vol.10(1) : 13, 2014 
Journal Title
BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN FUNCTIONS
Issue Date
2014
MeSH
Adult ; Attention/physiology ; Eye Movements/physiology* ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Schizophrenia/physiopathology* ; Schizophrenic Psychology* ; Thinking/physiology* ; Young Adult
Keywords
Schizophrenia ; Abstract thinking ; Theme identification ; Eye gaze
Abstract
BACKGROUND:
Effective integration of visual information is necessary to utilize abstract thinking, but patients with schizophrenia have slow eye movement and usually explore limited visual information. This study examines the relationship between abstract thinking ability and the pattern of eye gaze in patients with schizophrenia using a novel theme identification task.
METHODS:
Twenty patients with schizophrenia and 22 healthy controls completed the theme identification task, in which subjects selected which word, out of a set of provided words, best described the theme of a picture. Eye gaze while performing the task was recorded by the eye tracker.
RESULTS:
Patients exhibited a significantly lower correct rate for theme identification and lesser fixation and saccade counts than controls. The correct rate was significantly correlated with the fixation count in patients, but not in controls.
CONCLUSIONS:
Patients with schizophrenia showed impaired abstract thinking and decreased quality of gaze, which were positively associated with each other. Theme identification and eye gaze appear to be useful as tools for the objective measurement of abstract thinking in patients with schizophrenia.
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DOI
10.1186/1744-9081-10-13
Appears in Collections:
1. College of Medicine (의과대학) > Dept. of Psychiatry (정신과학교실) > 1. Journal Papers
Yonsei Authors
Kim, Jae Jin(김재진) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1395-4562
Oh, Jooyoung(오주영) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6721-399X
Lee, Jung Suk(이정석)
URI
https://ir.ymlib.yonsei.ac.kr/handle/22282913/98562
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