Validating the construct of aberrant salience in schizophrenia - Behavioral evidence for an automatic process.

ABSTRACT: Suspecting significance behind ordinary events is a common feature in psychosis and it is assumed to occur due to aberrant salience attribution. The Salience Attribution Test (SAT; Roiser et al., 2009) measures aberrant salience as a bias towards one out of two equally reinforced cue features as opposed to adaptive salience towards features indicating high reinforcement. This is the first study to validate the latent constructs involved in salience attribution in patients. Forty-nine schizophrenia patients and forty-four healthy individuals completed the SAT, a novel implicit salience paradigm (ISP), a reversal learning task and a neuropsychological test battery. First, groups were compared on raw measures. Second and within patients, these were correlated and then used for a principal com

SUBMITTER: Katthagen T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5514317 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature