title: Perceptual biases in psychosis-prone individuals.
abstract: College students screened for psychosis-proneness using the Chapman scales were compared on 4 free-vision tasks that typically yield left-spatial-field biases. The tasks included 2 chimeric face tests, consisting of happy/neutral faces and male/female faces, and 2 nonface tasks, consisting of pairs of dot-filled or gradient-filled rectangles. Participants endorsing perceptual aberration items, magical ideation items, or both (n = 98) and control participants (n = 112) were left-biased on all tasks but gradients and were most biased on emotion faces; in contrast, i.e., social anhedonia participants (n = 40) displayed very little or no left-field biases. For all groups, task intercorrelations were greatest between the 2 face tasks and between the 2 nonface tasks. These findings suggest patterns of atypical perceptual asymmetry in psychosis-prone individuals.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison 53706, USA.
authors.forename: K E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Luh
authors.forename: D C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Gooding
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000503:physiopathology*; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012569:Schizotypal Personality Disorder / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology; D014794:Visual Fields / Q000502:physiology*