Background: To understand the genetics of schizophrenia, a hunt for so-called intermediate phenotypes or endophenotypes is ongoing. Visual masking has been proposed to be such an endophenotype. However, no systematic study has been conducted yet to prove t ...
Visual backward masking paradigm, as determined with the shine-through effect, is a very sensitive tool to detect age related differences in visual temporal processing. We presented a vernier offset to the left or right followed by a grating mask which imp ...
INTRODUCTION: Contextual processing is often strongly deteriorated in schizophrenic patients as found, for example, in higher cognitive as well as lower visual paradigms. In visual detection tasks, impoverished contextual facilitation was attributed to abe ...
