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Integration Of Audio-~Visual Emotional Information In Schizophrneia, Bern Lee
Integration Of Audio-~Visual Emotional Information In Schizophrneia, Bern Lee
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Schizophrenia (SZ) is a debilitating illness characterized by a number of perceptual and
cognitive deficits. Deficits in emotional judgment and perception are consistently identified, although less is known about the integration of emotional information from separate sensory modalities. This study investigates the integration of auditory and visual emotional information in schizophrenia and healthy controls through application of an emotion judgment task modeled after the McGurk effect. The emotional judgments of 54 participants (40 SZ and 14 control participants from the community) for auditory, visual, and bimodal phonemic stimuli conveying no lexical information were analyzed. Visual and auditory stimuli conveying joy …