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People with schizophrenia (SCZ) show alterations in several domains of visual processing, including visual motion processing. However, less is known about biological motion perception among persons with SCZ. Such knowledge is important because humans utilize biological motion for understanding socio-emotional aspects (eg, intentions) of actors in their environment and people with SCZ are well known to have deficiencies in this area. In the current study, groups of healthy community based controls (N= 20) and patients with SCZ (N= 16) were asked to discriminate the direction of motion of four types of point-light walkers: upright normal walkers, inverted normal walkers, upright scrambled walkers (which contained only local motion information), and upright random-position walkers (which contained only global form information). Normal and inverted walkers were also presented in a dynamic random noise …