title: Aberrant semantic and affective processing in people at risk for psychosis.
abstract: Semantic and affective processing were examined in people at risk for psychosis. The participants were 3 groups of college students: 41 people with elevated Perceptual Aberration and Magical Ideation (PerMag) scores, 18 people with elevated Social Anhedonia (SocAnh) scores, and 100 control participants. Participants completed a single-word, continuous presentation pronunciation task that included semantically related words, affectively valenced words, and semantically unrelated and affectively neutral words. PerMag participants exhibited increased semantic priming and increased sensitivity to affectively valenced primes. SocAnh participants had increased sensitivity to affectively valenced targets.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 603 East Daniel Street, Champaign, Illinois 61820, USA.
authors.forename: J G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Kerns
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Berenbaum
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D001288:Attention; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D010153:Paired-Associate Learning; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D012307:Risk Factors; D012660:Semantics; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology