N170 and schizophrenia

Question 1

Shah et al (2018)

Answer 1

found that patients with Sz had a delayed N170 response latency combined with a reduced amplitude.

• findings like this help us to develop out understanding of mental disorders
• perhaps one of the reasons behind certain characteristics (e.g. hallucinations or delusions) may be due to abnormalities in face processing

Question 2

combination with other forms of cognitive neuroscience methodology

Answer 2

• e.g. fmri
• as we know the time course of responding to stimuli, in this case faces, we can look at the activity of the brain within this time course to identify which regions are active during face processing

Question 3

Bayer et al (2017)

Answer 3

• identified the fusiform face areas, the superior and middle frontal gyrus and large parts of the visual cortex