Finding normal-to-better neurocognitive indexes in individuals with schizotypal traits using a social role task.

ABSTRACT: Schizophrenia patients make more errors and have longer reaction times (RTs) than healthy controls in most cognitive tasks. Deficits are also observed in subclinical participants having high scores on the schizotypal personality questionnaire (SPQ). They are accompanied by smaller amplitudes of the event-related brain potentials (ERPs) that index attention and semantic- and working-memory. These functions are thus thought to be impaired in individuals having various schizophrenia attributes (SzAs). Nevertheless, normal RTs were recently found in SzAs during a particular self-referential task where half of the stimuli were names of extraordinary social roles (e.g., genius). Each name (ordinary or extraordinary) was presented individually, and participants were asked to decide whether or not

SUBMITTER: Diao M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10541438 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature