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Correlations between psychometric schizotypy, scan path length, fixations on the eyes and face recognition.

Hills, P.J., Eaton, E. and Pake, J. M., 2015. Correlations between psychometric schizotypy, scan path length, fixations on the eyes and face recognition. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1 - 15 .

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DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2015.1034143

Abstract

Psychometric schizotypy in the general population correlates negatively with face recognition accuracy, potentially due to deficits in inhibition, social withdrawal, or eye-movement abnormalities. We report an eye-tracking face recognition study in which participants were required to match one of two faces (target and distractor) to a cue face presented immediately before. All faces could be presented with or without paraphernalia (e.g., hats, glasses, facial hair). Results showed that paraphernalia distracted participants, and that the most distracting condition was when the cue and the distractor face had paraphernalia but the target face did not, while there was no correlation between distractibility and participants' scores on the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire (SPQ). Schizotypy was negatively correlated with proportion of time fixating on the eyes and positively correlated with not fixating on a feature. It was negatively correlated with scan path length and this variable correlated with face recognition accuracy. These results are interpreted as schizotypal traits being associated with a restricted scan path leading to face recognition deficits.

Item Type:Article
ISSN:1747-0218
Uncontrolled Keywords:Eye tracking ; Face recognition ; Paraphernalia ; Schizotypal personality ; Schizotypy
Group:Faculty of Science & Technology
ID Code:22663
Deposited By: Symplectic RT2
Deposited On:15 Oct 2015 08:42
Last Modified:14 Mar 2022 13:53

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