We illustrate the significance of this distinction for social perception research and report new empirical evidence further highlighting the importance of mental state attribution for perceptual processing. We distinguish two different levels at which experimental stimuli can match social stimuli as encountered in everyday social settings: (1) the extent to which a stimulus' physical properties resemble those typically encountered in social interactions and (2) the higher-level conceptualization of the stimulus as indicating another person's mental states. Here, we assess the similarity between the various types of stimuli used in the laboratory and object classes encountered in real social interactions. Recent studies have demonstrated the importance of such higher-order conceptualization of the stimulus for social perceptual processing. In an equally important sense, however, these stimuli might be regarded as “non-social”: the observer knows that they are viewing pictures and might therefore not attribute current mental states to the stimuli or might do so in a qualitatively different way than in a real social interaction. These stimuli are social only in the restricted sense that they physically resemble objects with which the observer would typically interact. Yet, studies of social perception have mostly employed simple pictorial representations of conspecifics. Stuttgart: Ferinand Enkel Verlag.A growing consensus in social cognitive neuroscience holds that large portions of the primate visual brain are dedicated to the processing of social information, i.e., to those aspects of stimuli that are usually encountered in social interactions such as others' facial expressions, actions, and symbols. Ein Beitrag zur Psychopa- thologie symptomarmer Schizophrenien. Der Verlust der Natürlichen Selbstverständlichkeit. The amygdala as a hub in brain networks that support social life. doi: 10.1093/schbul/sbl035, PMID:īickart K., Dickerson B., Barrett L.
Assessment of community functioning in people With schizophrenia and other severe mental illnesses: A white paper based on an NIMH-sponsored workshop. Community of one: social cognition and auditory verbal hallucinations. Social perception from visual cues: role of the STS region. Psychosis schizophrenia social affordances social cognition social perception.Ĭopyright © 2022 Cavieres and López-Silva.Īllison T., Puce A., McCarthy G. We conclude with the discussion of some future directions for research derived from our proposal. Clinical data suggests that people with schizophrenia have problems perceiving social situations as opportunities for social engagement, so, in order to fulfil this explanatory need, we propose that the term should be used to capture this important-yet neglected-domain of social cognition. Relying on resources coming from the ecological approach to psychology and the phenomenological tradition in psychiatry, we propose that the concept of Social Perception should be used to refer to low-level pre-reflective processes underlying the awareness of interpersonal interactions with and between others. In this paper, we suggest that this issue can be explained by the lack of a precise and unitary definition of the concept, this leads to the existence of different competing uses of the concept and their conflation with other domains of social cognition. While most research in the field has focused on emotion perception, social knowledge, theory of mind, and attribution styles, the domain of social perception has received little specific attention. Disturbances in social cognition are a core feature of schizophrenia.
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