Visual integration deficits associated with psychosis are independent of diagnosis

Abstract

Evidence of altered visual processing is well‐established in schizophrenia. Visual integration deficits have been highlighted as a potential diagnostic biomarker to distinguish schizophrenia from other psychiatric disorders. Motivated by the current lack of cross-diagnostic assessments of visual integration performance, the current study used the Jittered Orientation Visual Integration (JOVI) task to assess contour integration performance in 85 psychiatric inpatients split into “schizophrenia spectrum” (n = 40) and “other psychiatric disorders” (n = 45), and healthy controls (n = 43). The study also examined attentional and working memory ability using the Digit Span Task. JOVI accuracy scor..