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Title: Schizotypal personality and semantic functioning: Revisiting category fluency effects in a subclinical sample
Author: Rodríguez-Ferreiro, Javier
Aguilera, María del Carmen
Keywords: Trastorns de la personalitat
Esquizofrènia
Semàntica
Vocabulari
Personality disorders
Schizophrenia
Semantics
Vocabulary
Issue Date: 2019
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Abstract: Semantic disturbances have been proposed as a possible cause of formal thought disorder in schizophrenia. Fluency tasks, in which volunteers are asked to produce as many exemplars as they can for a given category during one minute, are usually applied to the assessment of semantic processing. However, studies associating fluency and proneness to psychosis have provided conflicting results so it is not clear whether these disturbances can be identified at subclinical stages. We conducted two experiments. In the first one, 71 volunteers completed written category fluency tasks with four semantic categories (animals, fruits, clothing and vehicles). In the second experiment, 77 new participants completed oral category and phonological fluency tasks (words starting with f, t, p and c). In both experiments, we assessed schizotypal personality and vocabulary size. Schizotypal traits were not reliably associated with either productivity or originality of the responses in any experiment. In contrast, vocabulary size significantly predicted the participants' scores in all the tasks. Along with results of other recent studies, our data cast doubt on the reliability of previous observations pointing out an association between schizotypy and lexical-semantic disturbances, at least in relation to productivity and originality in fluency tests.
Note: Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2018.11.074
It is part of: Psychiatry Research, 2019, vol. 271, p. 365-369
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/162494
Related resource: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2018.11.074
ISSN: 0165-1781
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