Abstract
Psychometric schizotypy and attentional deficit. The schizotypy is a personality disorder characterized by showing similar features to the schizophrenia. The aim of this research was to study the differences in attention (measured by the CPT) in normal subjects. One hundred high-degree students participated in this study. They were divided in groups according to the high or low O-LIFE score and/or its different subscales. The results show that high psychometric schizotypy subjects (those cases with a O-LIFE high score and/or its subscales) have problems in some measures of sustained attention such as a high d' index, a high false alarm index, and a high number of mistakes when the target stimulus appears at the end of the stimulus serie. These problems mainly appear in the O-LIFE Cognitive Disorganization subscale.
