Background Mirror neuron system (MNS) consists of visuomotor neurons that are
responsible for the mirror neuron activity (MNA), meaning that each time an individual …

Dysfunctional social communication is one of the most stable characteristics in patients with
schizophrenia spectrum disorder (SSD) that severely affects quality of life. Interpreting …

The social world is dynamic and contextually embedded. Yet, most studies utilize simple
stimuli that do not capture the complexity of everyday social episodes. To address this, we …

Patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD) exhibit an aberrant perception and
comprehension of abstract speech-gesture combinations associated with dysfunctional …

Schizophrenia is marked by aberrant processing of complex speech and gesture, which may
contribute functionally to its impaired social communication. To date, extant neuroscientific …

Gestures and speech, as linked communicative expressions, form an integrated system.
Previous functional magnetic resonance imaging studies have suggested that neural …

In psychiatry, mental representations are considered at a variety of complexity levels in a
highly interdisciplinary context. Strict definitions, where mental representation reflects the …

Since the first phenomenological descriptions of psychosis, severe alterations in sensory
processing and perception have been assumed as one key factor at the root of the disorder …

Introduction: Dysfunctional social communication is one of the most stable characteristics in
patients with schizophrenia that severely affects quality of life. Interpreting abstract speech …