title: Disorder of attention in individuals with schizotypal personality.
abstract: This study was designed to examine disorder of switching attention in normal individuals with schizotypal personality. High scorers on the physical anhedonia (PA) and schizophrenism (SZ) scales of a questionnaire constructed to measure schizotypy were compared with a group of control subjects. A reaction time test was used that required switching attention across or between auditory and visual modalities. It was found that the high PA scores and the high SZ scorers showed a deficit of shifting attention across modalities compared with the control subjects.
authors.affiliation: Genetics, Institute of Psychiatry, London, England.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wilkins
authors.forename: P H
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Venables
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D001288:Attention; D003118:Color Perception; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010897:Pitch Discrimination; D011930:Reaction Time; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012569:Schizotypal Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*