Deficits in anticipation are implicated across a variety of cognitive and emotional processes
in schizophrenia. Although diminished anticipatory event-related potentials (ERPs) have
been detected during tasks requiring motor response preparation in schizophrenia, no prior
ERP study has examined non-motor-related anticipatory processes or used motivationally
engaging stimuli. Thirty-four schizophrenia outpatients and 36 healthy controls completed a
cued, reaction-time contingent picture viewing task to assess two types of anticipatory ERPs …