Social memory performance in schizophrenia

The advance of social neurosciences is by and large dependent on the circumscription and measure of specific social-cognitive competencies. The importance of accurate neuropsychological tests emerges in this context as a decisive step to the evolution of the field as a whole. This paper has three interconnected goals: to shed light into a previously unreported social cognitive dimension and to introduce a software-based, multilingual neuropsychological test to assess and quantify performance under it; to validate the test for neurocognitive assessment in schizophrenia and to establish brain correlates of differences in performance in a cohort of patients with schizophrenia. The competence under consideration is called social memory and this relates to the ability to recall social information.