Abstract Background:“Theory of mind”(TOM) refers to the ability to attribute mental states (ie,
beliefs and goals) to one's self and others and to recognize that behaviors are guided by …

Social cognitive dysfunction, including deficits in facial emotion recognition and theory of
mind, is a core feature of schizophrenia and more strongly predicts functional outcome than …

Research on social cognition focuses on several human abilities with a huge diversity in the
approaches to tap the different functions. Empathy, for instance, is a rather elaborated …

Negative symptoms have been associated with frontal lobe dysfunction in schizophrenia.
However, neuropsychological studies that evaluated the correlation between performance in …

Background: Although previous behavioral studies have shown that schizophrenia patients
have impaired theory of mind (ToM), the neural mechanisms associated with this impairment …

This study investigated the relationship between theory of mind (ToM) deficits and visual
perception in patients with schizophrenia (N= 52; 17 remitted and unmedicated) compared …

The study of social cognition in psychiatric disorders has become increasingly popular in
recent years. This is due to the its proposed link to social functioning and the inability of …

Impaired ability to infer the mental states of others (theory of mind; ToM) is considered to be
a key contributor to the poor social functioning of patients with schizophrenia. Although …

Empathy is a multidimensional construct composed of several components such as emotion
recognition, emotional perspective taking and affective responsiveness. Even though …

Background. It has been proposed that delusions of persecution are caused by the tendency
to over-attribute malevolent intentions to other people's actions. One aspect of intention …