title: Sound improves diminished visual temporal sensitivity in schizophrenia.
abstract: Visual temporal processing and multisensory integration (MSI) of sound and vision were examined in individuals with schizophrenia using a visual temporal order judgment (TOJ) task. Compared to a non-psychiatric control group, persons with schizophrenia were less sensitive judging the temporal order of two successively presented visual stimuli. However, their sensitivity to visual temporal order improved as in the control group when two accessory sounds were added (temporal ventriloquism). These findings indicate that individuals with schizophrenia have diminished sensitivity to visual temporal order, but no deficits in the integration of low-level auditory and visual information.
authors.affiliation: Tilburg University, Department of Cognitive Neuropsychology, P.O. Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands. Electronic address: l.w.z.deboer@uvt.nl.
authors.forename: Liselotte
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: de Boer-Schellekens
authors.affiliation: Tilburg University, Department of Cognitive Neuropsychology, P.O. Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands. Electronic address: j.j.stekelenburg@uvt.nl.
authors.forename: Jeroen J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Stekelenburg
authors.affiliation: Yulius Academy, Mathenesserlaan 202, 3014 RH Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Electronic address: j.p.maes@yulius.nl.
authors.forename: Jan Pieter
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Maes
authors.affiliation: Yulius Academy, Mathenesserlaan 202, 3014 RH Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Electronic address: a.vanGool@yulius.nl.
authors.forename: Arthur R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Van Gool
authors.affiliation: Tilburg University, Department of Cognitive Neuropsychology, P.O. Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands. Electronic address: J.Vroomen@uvt.nl.
authors.forename: Jean
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Vroomen
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000328:Adult; D001307:Auditory Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000503:physiopathology*; D013016:Sound; D013998:Time Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*
keywords: Multisensory integration; Schizophrenia; Temporal ventriloquism; Visual temporal sensitivity