Schizoz Better at Discerning Illusions = DUH!
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… Read More...Optical illusions that fool most people don’t seem to trick those who suffer from schizophrenia, concludes a study published in the latest issue of Current Biology. The success may actually be linked to a weakness in a brain mechanism called contextual processing, which is responsible for picking out relevant sensory information from the barrage of stimuli a person constantly experiences. If that’s the case, it may explain why some schizophrenics misunderstand other people’s actions in the context of a situation or feel paranoia or persecution.
Because vision depends on low-level contextual processing, the researchers, led by Steven Dakin of University College London, devised an experiment to test a person’s ability to discriminate one contrasting pattern from another.