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SUBMITTER: Leonard CJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3929125 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Leonard Carly J CJ Robinson Benjamin M BM Kaiser Samuel T ST Hahn Britta B McClenon Clara C Harvey Alex N AN Luck Steven J SJ Gold James M JM
Journal of abnormal psychology 20131101 4
Recent research has suggested that people with schizophrenia (PSZ) have sensory deficits, especially in the magnocellular pathway, and this has led to the proposal that dysfunctional sensory processing may underlie higher-order cognitive deficits. Here we test the hypothesis that the antisaccade deficit in PSZ reflects dysfunctional magnocellular processing rather than impaired cognitive processing, as indexed by working memory capacity. This is a plausible hypothesis because oculomotor regions ...[more]