Analysis of visual exploration patterns in schizophrenia using photographs of everyday life situations

In everyday life we permanently shift our attention to locations of interest in order to grasp the content and context of a scene. As a core feature of schizophrenia social cognition is impaired in these patients. There is an ongoing debate whether patients use different exploration strategies than healthy controls or whether they simply explore less areas of interest. Eye movements of 32 patients with schizophrenia and 33 control subjects were recorded while participants explored six photos (20 seconds/photo) showing daily living scenes from the „Integrated Psychological Therapy Program for Schizophrenic Patien…