Agnese Venskus

Higher proneness to multisensory illusions is driven by reduced temporal sensitivity in people with high schizotypal traits.

Consciousness and Cognition October 2018 Francesca Ferri, Agnese Venskus, Francesca Fotia et al.

A coherent sense of self, typically altered in schizophrenia, is accompanied by a coherent ability to integrate sensory information. According to the idea of a psychosis continuum, high schizotypal traits in the general population may be associated to higher proneness to multisensory illusions, akin to schizophrenia. We directly tested this hypothesis by means of the double-flash illusion in...