Visual backward masking: Deficits in locating targets are specific to schizophrenia and not related to intellectual decline

Schizophrenia Research

Volumn 78, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 261-268

  Koelkebeck, Katja ^a   Ohrmann, Patricia ^a   Hetzel, Guenter ^a   Arolt, Volker ^a   Suslow, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Backward masking; Diagnostic specificity; Intellectual functioning; Schizophrenia; Spatial visual perception

Indexed keywords

ATYPICAL ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENT; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; NORADRENALIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 24344487946     PISSN: 09209964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2005.01.017     Document Type: Article

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