Abstract

In schizophrenia, deficits in social cognition, such as facial emotion identification, have a significant impact on patient’s daily functioning and quality of life. We analyzed the beta event-related desynchronization (ERD) associated with emotional facial displays to understand better both phase-locked (i.e., neural activity and corresponding EEG response have a fixed latency after the stimulus onset) and non-phase-locked, induced (i.e. the latency of the response is not...