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We investigated responses to foveally presented stimuli in patients with schizophrenia and healthy controls as they performed unidimensional and bidimensional versions of the flanker task.
There was no significant difference between the noflanker and congruent flanker conditions.
One way to avoid this potential confound is to investigate whether the simultaneous presentation of "flankers" together with the test grating produce similar effects.
Second, our data analysis included no cells having measurable responses to high-contrast flankers alone.
Accordingly, correct responses in the reverse condition were considerably slower than those in the conventional flanker task condition.
In its simplest form, the flanker task requires that a central target be identified with a specific manual response.
During each flanker block, the target-toflanker distance was constant, whereas in controls blocks, subjects detected the isolated target in the absence of flankers.
Measurements with collinear and orthogonal flankers were performed in separate blocks, which were counterbalanced across the participants.
