ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2017
Electrophysiological Evidence for Hyperfocusing of Spatial Attention in Schizophrenia.
Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.
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- Atypically larger variability of resource allocation accounts for visual working memory deficits in schizophrenia.PLoS computational biology · 2021Article
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- Hyperfocus: the forgotten frontier of attention.Psychological research · 2021Review
- Lateralized evoked responses in parietal cortex demonstrate visual short-term memory deficits in first-episode schizophrenia.Journal of psychiatric research · 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
A recently proposed hyperfocusing hypothesis of cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia proposes that people with schizophrenia (PSZ) tend to concentrate processing resources more narrowly but more intensely than healthy control subjects (HCS). The present study tests a key prediction of this hypothesis, namely, that PSZ will hyperfocus on information presented at the center of gaze. This should lead to greater filtering of peripheral stimuli when the task requires focusing centrally but reduced filtering of central stimuli when the task requires attending broadly in the periphery. These predictions were tested in a double oddball paradigm, in which frequent standard stimuli and rare oddball stimuli were presented at central and peripheral locations while event-related potentials were recorded. Participants were instructed to discriminate between the standard and oddball stimuli at either the central location or at the peripheral locations. PSZ and HCS showed opposite patterns of spatial bias at the level of early sensory processing, as assessed with the P1 component: PSZ exhibited stronger sensory suppression of peripheral stimuli when the task required attending narrowly to the central location, whereas HCS exhibited stronger sensory suppression of central stimuli when the task required attending broadly to the peripheral locations. Moreover, PSZ exhibited a stronger stimulus categorization response than HCS, as assessed with the P3b component, for central stimuli when the task required attending to the peripheral region. These results provide strong evidence of hyperfocusing in PSZ, which may provide a unified mechanistic account of multiple aspects of cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia.
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