On disturbed time continuity in schizophrenia: An elementary impairment in visual perception?

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue MAY, 2013, Pages

  Giersch, Anne ^a   Lalanne, Laurence ^a   van Assche, Mitsouko ^a   Elliott, Mark A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Anticipation; Attention; Implicit processing; Schizophrenia; Simon effect; Synchrony; Time

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878933615     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00281     Document Type: Review

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