Pictorial size perception in schizophrenia

Abstract In this study, we compared visual pictorial size perception between healthy volunteers (CG) and an experimental group (EG) of people diagnosed with schizophrenia. We have been using paintings by Salvador Dalí and Rorschach plates to estimate visual pictorial size perception. In this transve...

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Autores principales: Maria Lúcia de Bustamante Simas, Ana Cristina Taunay Maranhão, Aline Mendes Lacerda, Flora Silva Teixeira, Carlos Henrique Resende Freire, Cecília Coimbra da Silva Raposo, Georgia Mônica Marque de Menezes
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Publicado: SpringerOpen 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/1e58874e02b34b23ae248cec8e28d6ff
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Sumario:Abstract In this study, we compared visual pictorial size perception between healthy volunteers (CG) and an experimental group (EG) of people diagnosed with schizophrenia. We have been using paintings by Salvador Dalí and Rorschach plates to estimate visual pictorial size perception. In this transversal, ex post facto, and quasi-experimental study, we observed differences between EG and CG. Schizophrenic in-patients perceived sizes about 1.3-fold greater than healthy volunteers (p=0.006), implying that pictorial size perception is altered in some way in schizophrenia. Considering the present and previous results, this measurement of diameter size of first pictorial perception may be a useful estimate of some aspects of perceptual alterations that may be associated with psychotic symptoms in prodromal and acute schizophrenic episodes and other related mental states. Eventually, this may help in preventing people from evolving to acute episodes.