Visual Masking & Schizophrenia

Overview

Journal Schizophr Res Cogn

Specialty Psychology

Date 2017 Nov 9

PMID 29114454

Citations 10

Authors

Michael H Herzog

Andreas Brand

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Abstract

Visual masking is a frequently used tool in schizophrenia research. Visual masking has a very high sensitivity and specificity and masking paradigms have been proven to be endophenotypes. Whereas masking is a powerful technique to study schizophrenia, the underlying mechanisms are discussed controversially. For example, for more than 25 years, masking deficits of schizophrenia patients were mainly attributed to a deficient magno-cellular system (M-system). Here, we show that there is very little evidence that masking deficits are magno-cellular deficits. We will discuss the magno-cellular and other approaches in detail and highlight their pros and cons.

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