title: Enhanced visual performance in obsessive compulsive personality disorder.
abstract: Visual performance is considered as commanding modality in human perception. We tested whether Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) people do differently in visual performance tasks than people without OCPD. One hundred ten students of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad and non-student participants were tested by Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis II Personality Disorders (SCID-II), among whom 18 (mean age = 29.55; SD = 5.26; 84% female) met the criteria for OCPD classification; controls were 20 persons (mean age = 27.85; SD = 5.26; female = 84%), who did not met the OCPD criteria. Both groups were tested on a modified Flicker task for two dimensions of visual performance (i.e., visual acuity: detecting the location of change, complexity, and size; and visual contrast sensitivity). The OCPD group had responded more accurately on pairs related to size, complexity, and contrast, but spent more time to detect a change on pairs related to complexity and contrast. The OCPD individuals seem to have more accurate visual performance than non-OCPD controls. The findings support the relationship between personality characteristics and visual performance within the framework of top-down processing model.
authors.affiliation: Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Zohreh
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Ansari
authors.affiliation: Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran. j.s.fadardi@um.ac.ir.
authors.forename: Javad Salehi
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Fadardi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003193:Compulsive Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D010554:Personality Disorders; D014796:Visual Perception; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: 
  OCPD
  ; Visual performance; visual acuity; visual contrast sensitivity; visual function