Individual differences in the executive control of attention, memory, and thought, and their associations with schizotypy.

ABSTRACT: A large correlational study took a latent-variable approach to the generality of executive control by testing the individual-differences structure of executive-attention capabilities and assessing their prediction of schizotypy, a multidimensional construct (with negative, positive, disorganized, and paranoid factors) conveying risk for schizophrenia. Although schizophrenia is convincingly linked to executive deficits, the schizotypy literature is equivocal. Subjects completed tasks of working memory capacity (WMC), attention restraint (inhibiting prepotent responses), and attention constraint (focusing visual attention amid distractors), the latter 2 in an effort to fractionate the "inhibition" construct. We also assessed mind-wandering propensity (via in-task thought probes) and coeffici

SUBMITTER: Kane MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4965188 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature