Sound improves diminished visual temporal sensitivity in schizophrenia

article Visualtemporal processing and multisensory integration (MSI) of soundand vision were examinedinindividuals 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 ac- cessorysoundswereadded(temporalventriloquism).These findingsindicatethatindividualswithschizophrenia have diminished sensitivity to visual temporal order, but no deficits in the integration of low-level auditory and visual information.