Individual differences in negative priming: relations with schizotypal personality traits.
A study is reported of normal subjects, selected for degree of schizotypal personality traits, on a cognitive task designed to measure, in a negative priming paradigm, the extent to which they differed in interference and presumed inhibitory effects on performance. The main individual differences measure used--a new scale of schizotypy--showed, as predicted, a significant correlation with negative priming. The correlation with a measure of 'interference' was non-significant but in the expected direction. The results are judged relevant to research implicating a weakening of inhibitory selective mechanisms in schizophrenia and to models in abnormal psychology proposing a continuum between normal and abnormal cognitive function. As such, they suggest a soundly based theoretical approach to the analysis of the individual variations in information processing commonly observed in general cognitive psychology.
D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D003118:Color Perception; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011594:Psychometrics; D011930:Reaction Time; D012569:Schizotypal Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D012660:Semantics