Abstract Whereas patients with schizophrenia exhibit early visual processing impairments, their capacity at integrating visual information at various spatial scales, from low to high spatial frequencies, remains untested. This question is particularly acute given that,celine nano, in ecological conditions of viewing, spatial frequency bands are naturally integrated to form a coherent percept. Here, 19 patients with schizophrenia and 16 healthy controls performed a rapid emotion recognition task with hybrid faces. Because these stimuli displayed in a single image two different facial expressions, in low (LSF) and high (HSF) spatial frequencies, the selected emotion probes which spatial scale is preferentially perceived. In a control experiment participants performed the same task with...