Social Cognition

The protocol distinguishes social cognition from traditional neurocognition such as memory, attention, processing speed, and executive function. Social cognition includes perceiving social information, interpreting it, and responding to it. The four behavioural social cognition tasks are combined into a primary composite score, while task-level scores support domain-specific analyses. Behavioural social cognition is assessed with four tasks covering facial emotion, emotional prosody, social inference, and empathic accuracy. The study focuses on two RDoC social cognition constructs: Perceiving Social Cues and Understanding Others.