Table 3.

Eye gaze results during the theme and sex identification tasks

	Control (N = 22)	Schizophrenia (N = 20)	p-value*
General eye gaze
Abstract or Theme
Sample count	338.7 ± 8.6	323.7 ± 41.2	0.102
Fixation count	17.4 ± 7.3	12.1 ± 8.1	0.031
Saccade count	19.1 ± 6.9	14.1 ± 8.2	0.041
Concrete or Sex
Sample count	335.7 ± 12.6	319.7 ± 53.9	0.184
Fixation count	17.2 ± 7.3	10.4 ± 8.1	0.007
Saccade count	18.5 ± 6.1	12.2 ± 8.2	0.007
AOI gaze
Abstract or Theme
AOI fixation/Total fixation (%)	7.5 ± 6.7	5.5 ± 5.2	0.300
Concrete or Sex
AOI fixation/Total fixation (%)	7.3 ± 5.7	7.4 ± 6.5	0.955

*by repeated measures analysis of variance and post hoc t-test.

AOI, area of interest.