in later components observed during the more cognitively-demanding memory tasks. Nevertheless, while both groups showed left-larger-than-right visual N1 sinks over inferior-parietal sites, an asymmetry linked to the recognition of linguistic visual material (e.g., Dehaene, 1995; Hauk et al., 2006), this effect was only significant for healthy adults. The reduced N1 sink asymmetry in schizophrenia closely matches recent N150 findings for a small sample of chronic schizophrenic outpatients, which have been taken as evidence for a deficit of automatically activating linguistic networks (Spironelli et al., 2008).
