Fearful and happy faces were selected because they have been shown to be associated with the most distinct use of facial visual information. Because we only used emotions; however, it is unclear if patients made their decisions based on the presence of the critical features of one emotion or the absence of the critical features of the other emotion. It is possible that this finding characterizes how patients differentiate fear from happy instead of how they recognize each emotion in isolation. Thus, it remains to be tested whether schizophrenia patients would show a similar use of visual information when asked to recognize fear and happiness among more alternatives. Reassuringly, healthy controls in this study showed the same search strategies for fear and happy that were found when people were asked to identify the 6 basic emotions plus neutral faces. Another limitation of this study is that we did not collect the stimulus presentation time during the Bubbles task. It remains to be determined whether schizophrenia patients need longer stimulus presentation time to collect necessary visual information.