Neurostimulation-enhanced Behavioral Remediation of Social Cognition in Schizophrenia

Social cognition concerns the understanding of how people think about others and how that, in turn, influences our behavior, feelings, and social interactions. schizophrenia social-cognitive impairment is profound (effect size D\>1.2), medication resistant and critically limits functional well-being . Social cognition involves complex patterns of coordinated activity within numerous cortical and subcortical networks, making it a difficult target for clinical neuroscience investigation. Yet, prior research demonstrates that sensory-perceptual dysfunction in schizophrenia can upwardly generalize into higher-order social-cognitive impairment making perception a tractable and fruitful approach for studying social cognition in schizophrenia. Here, the investigators explore how distortions in perception of temporal coincidence can contribute to the aberrant inferences of physical causation and social agency.