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Backward masking performance in unaffected siblings of schizophrenic patients. Evidence for a vulnerability indicator.
Archives of general psychiatry - 1 May 1997
Green M F, Nuechterlein K H, Breitmeyer B
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Visual masking is a procedure that is used to assess the earliest components of visual processing. In backward masking, the identification of an initial stimulus (the target) is disrupted by a later stimulus (the mask). The masking function can be divided into an early component (e.g., up to about 60 ms) that reflects the involvement of sensory-perceptual processes, and a later component that reflects...
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