ArticleJournal of abnormal psychology2014
Hyperfocusing in schizophrenia: Evidence from interactions between working memory and eye movements.
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- Attention in Schizophrenia.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2023Article
- The flickering spotlight of visual attention: Characterizing abnormal object-based attention in schizophrenia.Schizophrenia research · 2022Article
- Load-dependent functional connectivity deficits during visual working memory in first-episode psychosis.Journal of psychiatric research · 2022Article
- Impaired Filtering and Hyperfocusing: Neural Evidence for Distinct Selective Attention Abnormalities in People with Schizophrenia.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2022Article
- Atypically larger variability of resource allocation accounts for visual working memory deficits in schizophrenia.PLoS computational biology · 2021Article
- Oculomotor inhibition and location priming in schizophrenia.Journal of abnormal psychology · 2021Article
- Antisaccade Deficits in Schizophrenia Can Be Driven by Attentional Relevance of the Stimuli.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2021Article
- Hyperfocus: the forgotten frontier of attention.Psychological research · 2021Review
- Atypical attentional filtering of visual information in youth with chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome as indexed by event-related potentials.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2021Article
- Lateralized evoked responses in parietal cortex demonstrate visual short-term memory deficits in first-episode schizophrenia.Journal of psychiatric research · 2020Article
- Increased repulsion of working memory representations in schizophrenia.Journal of abnormal psychology · 2020Article
- Cognitive effort-avoidance in patients with schizophrenia can reflect Amotivation: an event-related potential study.BMC psychiatry · 2020Article
- People with schizophrenia show enhanced cognitive costs of maintaining a single item in working memory.Psychological medicine · 2020Article
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Abstract
Recent research suggests that processing resources are focused more narrowly but more intensely in people with schizophrenia (PSZ) than in healthy control subjects (HCS), possibly reflecting local cortical circuit abnormalities. This hyperfocusing hypothesis leads to the counterintuitive prediction that, although PSZ cannot store as much information in working memory as HCS, the working memory representations that are present in PSZ may be more intense than those in HCS. To test this hypothesis, we used a task in which participants make a saccadic eye movement to a peripheral target and avoid a parafoveal nontarget while they are holding a color in working memory. Previous research with this task has shown that the parafoveal nontarget is more distracting when it matches the color being held in working memory. This effect should be enhanced in PSZ if their working memory representations are more intense. Consistent with this prediction, we found that the effect of a match between the distractor color and the memory color was larger in PSZ than in HCS. We also observed evidence that PSZ hyperfocused spatially on the region surrounding the fixation point. These results provide further evidence that some aspects of cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia may be a result of a narrower and more intense focusing of processing resources.
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