Neural correlates of audiovisual integration in schizophrenia – an ERP study
A. Borgolte, C. Sinke, L. Michalke, L. Möde, N. Lepsy, D. Wiswede, S. Bleich, G. R. Szycik, E. Ghaneirad · 2024
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Description
Borgolte and eight co-authors present a 2024 brain study on how people with schizophrenia merge sight and sound. Healthy perception fuses the senses, judging whether a flash and a beep came at the same time within a short window. In schizophrenia that window runs wide, and wider windows track worse symptoms. The team ran a simultaneity judgment task with patients and healthy controls, under natural and unnatural pairings, while recording brain waves.
Patients again showed the wider binding window, whatever the pairing's realism. Their early brain responses to combined stimuli, the N1/P2 complex, came out smaller than controls'. That complex is tied to the merging process itself. The authors read the results as a sign of faulty disengagement between hearing and vision in schizophrenia. The work points to early sensory processing as one root of the disorder's perceptual symptoms.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | A. Borgolte, C. Sinke, L. Michalke, L. Möde, N. Lepsy, D. Wiswede, S. Bleich, G. R. Szycik, E. Ghaneirad |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 39 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |