Article
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....
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Attention
- Family
- Female
- Genetic Markers
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Models, Neurological
- Perceptual Masking
- Phenotype
- Psychomotor Performance
- Schizophrenia
- Schizophrenic Psychology
- Visual Perception