Antisaccade performance of schizophrenia patients: Evidence of reduced task-set activation and impaired error detection

The antisaccade task is well suited to study the interplay between environmental stimuli and action goals in controlling behavior. It requires subjects to look to the mirror position of visual stimuli. Schizophrenia patients usually show enhanced rates of erroneous saccades toward the stimulus. The present study was designed to investigate the role of task set activation and error detection for this impairment. Fifteen patients with a diagnosis...