Diametric effects of autism tendencies and psychosis proneness on attention control irrespective of task demands.

ABSTRACT: Our capacity to attend a target while ignoring irrelevant distraction impacts our ability to successfully interact with our environment. Previous reports have sometimes identified excessive distractor interference in both autism and schizophrenia spectrum disorders and in neurotypical individuals with high subclinical expressions of these conditions. Independent of task, we show that the direction of the effect of autism or psychosis traits on the suppression or rejection of a non-target item is diametrical. In Study 1, in which the presence of a salient non-target item hindered performance, higher autism traits were associated with better performance, while higher psychosis traits were associated with worse performance. In Study 2, in which the presence of a salient non-target item facili

SUBMITTER: Abu-Akel A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5981437 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature