Gamma function during cross-modal congruent and incongruent stimuli in schizophrenia

Patients with schizophrenia often have impairments in several types of thought processes relating to the link between separate neuronal populations. These impairments could be related to symptoms of schizophrenia such as positive and negative symptoms and cognitive deficits.

This study aims to evaluate performance and gamma functioning on two different neuropsychological tasks in patients with schizophrenia who have pervasive cognitive deficits (CD) and those who do not (cognitive spared CS).

The tasks involve responding correctly to congruent (matched on two dimensions, for example audio and visual match semantically) or incongruent (mismatched on two dimensions, for example audio and visual differ semantically) stimuli differing in complexity and distractibility.

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