Visual Perception

Individuals with psychotic disorders experience disturbances in their basic visual perceptual functions, such as contrast and motion perception. We use psychophysics (visual behavioral experiments) to unravel the extent and clinical relevance of these visual perceptual changes.

Türközer, H.B., Hasoglu, T., Chen, Y., Norris, L. A., Brown, M., Delaney-Busch, N., Kale, H.E., Pamir, Z., Boyaci, H., Kuperberg, G., Lewandowski, K. E., Topcuoglu, V., Öngür, D. (2018). Integrated assessment of visual perception abnormalities in psychotic disorders and relationship with clinical characteristics. Psychological Medicine, 1-9.

Türközer, H.B., Ross, D.A. (2021) Seeing Through Psychosis. Biological Psychiatry, 89(10): E51-E53.

Visual Cortex Structure