Hyperfocus: The forgotten frontier of attention

BK Ashinoff, A Abu-Akel - Psychological research, 2021 - Springer
Abstract 'Hyperfocus' is a phenomenon that reflects one's complete absorption in a task, to a
point where a person appears to completely ignore or 'tune out'everything else. Hyperfocus …

[HTML][HTML] Psychomotor slowing in schizophrenia: implications for endophenotype and biomarker development

KJ Osborne, S Walther, SA Shankman… - Biomarkers in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Motor abnormalities (eg, dyskinesia, psychomotor slowing, neurological soft signs) are core
features of schizophrenia that occur independent of drug treatment and are associated with …

Delta plots for conflict tasks: An activation-suppression race model

J Miller, W Schwarz - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2021 - Springer
We describe a mathematically simple yet precise model of activation suppression that can
explain the negative-going delta plots often observed in standard Simon tasks. The model …

Abnormalities in hubs location and nodes centrality predict cognitive slowing and increased performance variability in first-episode schizophrenia patients

P Krukow, K Jonak, R Karpiński… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract Introducing the Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) algorithms to neural networks
science eliminated the problem of arbitrary setting of the threshold for connectivity strength …

Traces of culture: the feedback loop between behavior, brain, and disorder

D Crafa, SK Nagel - Transcultural Psychiatry, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Culture is part of an extensive series of feedback loops, which involve multiple organismic
levels including social contexts, cognitive mediations, neural processes, and behavior …

What is the potential of neurostimulation in the treatment of motor symptoms in schizophrenia?

S Lefebvre, A Pavlidou, S Walther - Expert review of …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Motor abnormalities in schizophrenia are frequent and linked to poor social
functioning and low quality of life. To date, there are no effective treatments available to …

Sleep deprivation as an experimental model system for psychosis: Effects on smooth pursuit, prosaccades, and antisaccades

I Meyhöfer, V Kumari, A Hill… - Journal of …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Current antipsychotic medications fail to satisfactorily reduce negative and cognitive
symptoms and produce many unwanted side effects, necessitating the development of new …

Brain potentials reveal reduced attention and error-processing during a monetary Go/No-Go task in procrastination

JM Michałowski, E Wiwatowska, M Weymar - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Procrastination is a self-regulatory problem of voluntarily and destructively delaying
intended and necessary or personally important tasks. Previous studies showed that …

Decision processes and the slowing of simple choices in schizophrenia.

A Heathcote, A Suraev, S Curley, Q Gong… - Journal of abnormal …, 2015 - psycnet.apa.org
Individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia have slowed response times (RT). We examined
the role of decision processes in the slowing of simple choice responses. We updated …

Conjoint fluctuations of PFC-mediated processes and behavior: An investigation of error-related neural mechanisms in relation to sustained attention

M Chidharom, J Krieg, BT Pham, A Bonnefond - Cortex, 2021 - Elsevier
The ability to detect errors, which derives from the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), is crucial
to maintain attention over a long period of time. While impairment of this ability has been …