Investigation of electrophysiological precursors of attentional errors in schizophrenia: Toward a better understanding of abnormal proactive control engagement.

Impaired cognitive control has been associated with the occurrence of attentional errors in those with schizophrenia. However, the extent of altered proactive or reactive control underlying such errors is still unknown. Twenty-two patients with schizophrenia and 21 healthy matched controls performed a detection task (i.