Positive schizotypy scores correlate with left visual field interference for negatively valenced emotional words: A lateralized emotional Stroop study

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 169, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 229-234

  Van Strien, Jan W ^a   Van Kampen, Dirk ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attention; Emotional words; Hemispheric specialization; Laterality; Schizotypy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; SCORING SYSTEM; VISUAL FIELD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; EMOTIONS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; REACTION TIME; SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; VISUAL FIELDS; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349230755     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2008.06.019     Document Type: Article

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