ArticleJournal of abnormal psychology2017
Hyperfocusing of attention on goal-related information in schizophrenia: Evidence from electrophysiology.
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- Neuroanatomical and transcriptomic correlates of attention in schizophrenia.Schizophrenia research. Cognition · 2026Article
- A confirmatory factor analysis of hyperfocusing and inhibitory control as separable cognitive domains in schizophrenia.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2026Article
- Understanding Attention in Schizophrenia: The Enduring Influence of Barbara Cornblatt.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2026Review
- Visual suppression deficits as a biomarker of working memory impairment in schizophrenia.Schizophrenia research. Cognition · 2026Review
- Investigating autistic hyperfocus and monotropism: Limited convergence of event-related potentials, laboratory tasks, and questionnaire responses.Research in autism · 2025Article
- Unexpected higher resilience to distraction during visual working memory in schizophrenia.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Abnormalities in attention and working memory in schizophrenia: The hyperfocusing hypothesis.Current directions in psychological science · 2025Article
- Irrelevant sights and sounds require spatial suppression: ERP evidence.Psychophysiology · 2023Article
- Attention in Schizophrenia.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2023Article
- 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
- Hyperfocus: the forgotten frontier of attention.Psychological research · 2021Review
- Hallucinations: A Functional Network Model of How Sensory Representations Become Selected for Conscious Awareness in Schizophrenia.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Article
- Atypical attentional filtering of visual information in youth with chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome as indexed by event-related potentials.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2021Article
- 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
- Increased influence of a previously attended feature in people with schizophrenia.Journal of abnormal psychology · 2020Article
- Cortical hyperactivation at low working memory load: A primary processing abnormality in people with schizophrenia?NeuroImage. Clinical · 2020Article
- The Hyperfocusing Hypothesis: A New Account of Cognitive Dysfunction in Schizophrenia.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2019Review
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Abstract
Schizophrenia clearly involves impairments of attention, but the precise nature of these impairments has been difficult to determine. One possibility is that the deficit in attention is a secondary consequence of a deficit in goal maintenance. However, recent research suggests that people with schizophrenia (PSZ) actually focus attention more strongly on objects containing goal-relevant features. To test these competing hypotheses, we recorded event-related potentials (ERPs) from PSZ (N = 20) and healthy control subjects (HCS; N = 20) while they looked for a particular target color at fixation and tried to ignore lateral distractors that sometimes matched the target color (target-color distractors). Goal maintenance was made trivially easy by the continual presentation of a goal reminder. We found that HCS were able to successfully suppress target-color distractors (leading to a distractor positivity ERP component), whereas PSZ focused attention on these items (leading to an N2-posterior-contralateral ERP component). This suggests that, when maintaining a task set, PSZ engage in aberrant focusing of attention, or hyperfocusing, on goal-relevant features. (PsycINFO Database Record
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