Low spatial frequency bias in schizophrenia is not face specific: When the integration of coarse and fine information fails

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue MAY, 2013, Pages

  Laprevote, Vincent ^a   Oliva, Aude ^b   Ternois, Anne Sophie ^c   Schwan, Raymund ^a,d   Thomas, Pierre ^c,e   Boucart, Muriel ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NANCY   (France)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^e UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Hybrid image; Magnocellular; Object; Schizophrenia; Spatial frequency; Vision

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878952959     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00248     Document Type: Article

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