Preserved subliminal processing and 1 2 impaired conscious access in Schizophrenia . 3 4 5 6 7 Authors : 8 9

31 32 33 Background 34 Studies of visual backward masking have frequently revealed an elevated masking 35 threshold in schizophrenia. This finding has frequently been interpreted as indicating a low36 level visual deficit. However, more recent models suggest that masking may also involve late 37 and higher-level integrative processes, while leaving intact early “bottom-up” visual 38