Disrupted attentional learning in high schizotypy: Evidence of aberrant salience.

Mark Haselgrove, Michael E. Le Pelley, Navreen Singh, Hui Teow, Richard Morris, Melissa Green, Oren Griffiths, Simon Killcross

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Abstract

The relationship between learned variations in attention and schizotypy was examined in two experiments. In Experiment 1, participants low on a negative subscale of schizotypy exhibited an explicit bias in overt attention towards stimuli that were established as predictive of a trial outcome, relative to stimuli that were irrelevant. The same participants also showed a bias in learning about these stimuli when they presented in a novel context. Neither of these effects was observed in participants high in schizotypy. In Experiment 2, participants low on the negative subscale of schizotypy exhibited faster reaction times towards a target that was cued by a stimulus that had a history of predictive validity relative to a stimulus that had a history of irrelevance. Again, this effect was not present in participants high in schizotypy. These results imply a disruption in the normal allocation of attention to cues that have predictive significance in schizotypy.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)601-624
Number of pages24
JournalBritish Journal of Psychology
Volume107
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Nov 2016

Keywords

  • attention
  • eye-tracking
  • learned-irrelevance
  • learning
  • schizophrenia
  • schizotypy

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