Pupillometric measures of attentional allocation to target and mask processing on the backward masking task in schizophrenia

Psychophysiology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 510-520

  Granholm, Eric ^a,b   Fish, Scott C ^a,c   Verney, Steven P ^d  

^a VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Backward masking; Pupillary responses; Resource allocation; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BACKWARD MASKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSITIVE SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL; PUPILLOMETRY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 64149098889     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2009.00805.x     Document Type: Article

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