Investigating Visual Attention Deficits in Schizophrenia and Mood Disorder Patients

很少有研究利用眼动追踪来研究精神分裂症（SZ）患者的视觉注意。由于许多精神病患者遇到认知障碍（Wolf等人，2021年），该项目的目的是调查他们的决策过程。尽管COVID-19造成了困难的局面，我们还是对32名正常参与者和32名SZ患者进行了测试。基于所获得的数据，视觉行为与决策密切相关，其中观看时间以及与凝视相关的指标似乎是信息处理程度的有用指标。行为数据分析已经完成，而详细的眼动数据分析正在进行中。我们在精神病学和临床神经科学上发表的工作在科学观众中获得了很高的评价。系统综述（Wolf等人，2020年）已被公认为“2020-2021年最高引用文章”。此外，《心理学前沿》（Wolf和上田，2021年）的出版物已在国际心理物理学会会议（2022年费希纳日）期间作为口头贡献提交。最后，题为“消费者行为超越自我报告”的前沿研究主题（截至2022年4月25日，浏览次数为46，017次）将有影响力的研究人员和神经营销子领域的最新关键发现结合在一起，从而出版了一本开放获取的电子书（DOI：10.3389/978-2-88971-709-5）。

Few investigations have been done taking advantage of eye-tracking to study visual attention among patients with schizophrenia (SZ). Since many psychiatric patients encounter cognitive impairments (Wolf et al., 2021), the aim of this project was to investigate their decision-making processes. Despite the difficult situation due to the COVID-19, we have tested 32 normal participants and 32 patients with SZ. Based on obtained data, visual behavior is tightly linked to decision-making, where viewing time, as well as gaze-related metrics, appear to be a useful index of the extent of information processing. The behavior data analysis has been finalized, whereas the detailed eye-movement data analysis is being carried on. Our published work in Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences has been granted a high appreciation among the scientific audience. The systematic review (Wolf et al., 2020) has been recognized as a “Top Cited Article 2020-2021”. In addition, the publication in Frontiers in Psychology (Wolf and Ueda, 2021) has been presented as an oral contribution during the Conference of the International Society for Psychophysics (Fechner Day 2022). Finally, the Frontiers Research Topic entitled Consumer’s Behavior beyond Self-Report (viewed 46,017 times as of 25th of April 2022) unified influential researchers and the latest key findings in the subfield of neuromarketing, which resulted in publishing an open-access E-Book (DOI: 10.3389/978-2-88971-709-5).