The objective of this study is to review work carried out over the last decade in the area of emotion recognition in persons diagnosed with schizophrenia. Emotion recognition is one of the areas included in the term social cognition. The MATRICS project looks at seven critical cognitive fields where patients with schizophrenia have difficulties. Social cognition is one of these fields. The reasons why social cognition has become so relevant include: empirical evidence associating social cognition with social functioning; its role as a mediator variable between basic social cognition or neuro cognition and social functioning; the appearance of studies showing a neuron substratum of social cognition; and the attention which has started to be given to the development of intervention programmes in schizophrenia focussed on social cognition and, more specifically, on the appropriate recognition of emotions. Emotion recognition or the processing of emotions refers to all those aspects related to perceiving and using emotions. Empirical knowledge in this aspect of social cognition has been basically amassed by studies on the perception of facial emotion. The tasks used in these studies tasks basically consist of showing photographs of human faces in order to identify six basic emotions (happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise and disgust or shame).