Vernier threshold in patients with schizophrenia and in their unaffected siblings

Neuropsychology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 537-542

  Kéri, Szabolcs ^a   Kelemen, Oguz ^b   Benedek, György ^a,c   Janka, Zoltán ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^b Department of Psychiatry   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUNGARY; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARVOCELLULAR NETWORK; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA NERVE CELL; RETINA RECEPTIVE FIELD; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SIBLING; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERNIER THRESHOLD; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; GENICULATE BODIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REFERENCE VALUES; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 3242720347     PISSN: 08944105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0894-4105.18.3.537     Document Type: Article

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