title: Visuoconstructive performance, implicit hemispatial inattention, and schizotypy.
abstract: The present study investigates visuoconstructive performance and hemispatial inattention in schizotypic college students and control subjects using the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test (CFT). Both copy and delay CFT accuracy, as well as line bisection scores on the CFT, were examined in right-handed males reporting positive schizotypy (deviantly high scorers on the Perceptual Aberration and Magical Ideation Scales; n=24) and those reporting negative schizotypy (deviantly high scorers on the revised Social Anhedonia Scale and Physical Anhedonia Scale; n=26), as well as controls (n=45). The negative schizotypy group displayed reduced visuoconstructive performance, as measured by performance on both the copy and delay trials of the CFT. We did not find a significant relationship between schizotypy and hemispatial inattention. These findings suggest that negative schizotypy may be associated with memory performance deficits, but do not support prior assertions of a relationship between hemispatial inattention and positive schizotypy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1202 W. Johnson Street, Madison, WI 53706-1696, USA. dgooding@facstaff.wisc.edu
authors.forename: Diane C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Gooding
authors.forename: Jacqueline G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Braun
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008569:Memory Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D009633:Nonverbal Communication / Q000502:physiology*; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012569:Schizotypal Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*