Looking forward: An impaired ability in patients with schizophrenia?

► We used a visual simultaneity/asynchrony discrimination task with manual responses. ► The implicit processing of asynchronies was explored by means of the Simon effect. ► Schizophrenic patients tend to press to the side of the 1st stimulus at SOAs <20 ms. ► This effect is the clearest when stimuli are connected and spatially predictable. ► The results suggest implicit coding of time-event structure independent of space.