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    Individual differences in language lateralisation, schizotypy and the remote-associate task

    Suzuki, A. and Usher, Marius (2009) Individual differences in language lateralisation, schizotypy and the remote-associate task. Personality and Individual Differences 46 (5-6), pp. 622-626. ISSN 0191-8869.

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    Abstract

    We tested the hypothesis that the level of reduced laterality in language is correlated with the degrees of schizotypal personality in healthy individuals and with their performance in the remote-associate task (RAT). A total of 53 healthy participants completed a schizotypal personality measure of the Oxford-Liverpool Inventory of Feelings and Experiences (O-LIFE; a questionnaire measuring the level of psychotic proneness), a consonant–vowel–consonant (CVC; requiring the identification of letter trigrams presented tachistoscopically in the left/right visual fields or both), measuring reduced language laterality and a remote-associate task (RAT; requiring to report a word, weakly associated with three cue words). Analysis revealed correlations between CVC and O-LIFE, as well as between CVC and RAT performance. The results suggest that reduced language lateralisation (reduced hemispheric integration) may play a role in schizophrenic language disorganization, as reflected in highly schizotypal individuals, and that hemispheric integration plays a role in the remote-associate task.

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    Item Type: Article
    Keyword(s) / Subject(s): Schizotypy, language lateralisation, hemispheric integration, phonological processing, reduced-laterality, remote-associate task, schizophrenia
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Psychological Sciences
    Depositing User: Administrator
    Date Deposited: 16 Dec 2010 09:06
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 16:53
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/2602

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