To correctly identity emotional expressions of faces in general, schizophrenia patients required more visual information compared with controls.Moreover,schizophrenia patients used a different strategy of collecting visual information to ideatify emotional expression. for identifying fearful emotion,schizophrenia patients did not utilize information from the eyes but instead relied on areas around the mouth, whereas healthy controls relied on eyes at high-spatial frequencies. to identity happiness, schizophrenia patients relied on the area around the mouth at high and mid-range spatial frequencies and the eyes at mid-range spatial frequency, whereas healthy controls only used mid-rang spatial frequency information around the mouth this study is the firs, to our knowledge, to identify potent information that is used to make decisions about emotional content of facial stimuli in schizophrenia.