Differentiating psychopathy from general antisociality using the P3 as a psychophysiological correlate of attentional allocation.
Recent studies have shown that while psychopathy and non-psychopathic antisociality overlap, they differ in the extent to which cognitive impairments are present. Specifically, psychopathy has been related to abnormal allocation of attention, a function that is traditionally believed to be indexed b...
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| author | Inti A Brazil Robbert Jan Verkes Bart H J Brouns Jan K Buitelaar Berend H Bulten Ellen R A de Bruijn |
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| description | Recent studies have shown that while psychopathy and non-psychopathic antisociality overlap, they differ in the extent to which cognitive impairments are present. Specifically, psychopathy has been related to abnormal allocation of attention, a function that is traditionally believed to be indexed by event-related potentials (ERPs) of the P3-family. Previous research examining psychophysiological correlates of attention in psychopathic individuals has mainly focused on the parietally distributed P3b component to rare targets. In contrast, very little is known about the frontocentral P3a to infrequent novel events in psychopathy. Thus, findings on the P3 components in psychopathy are inconclusive, while results in non-psychopathic antisocial populations are clearer and point toward an inverse relationship between antisociality and P3 amplitudes. The present study adds to extant literature on the P3a and P3b in psychopathy by investigating component amplitudes in psychopathic offenders (N = 20), matched non-psychopathic offenders (N = 23) and healthy controls (N = 16). Also, it was assessed how well each offender group was able to differentially process rare novel and target events. The offender groups showed general amplitude reductions compared to healthy controls, but did not differ mutually on overall P3a/P3b amplitudes. However, the psychopathic group still exhibited normal neurophysiological differentiation when allocating attention to rare novel and target events, unlike the non-psychopathic sample. The results highlight differences between psychopathic and non-psychopathic offenders regarding the integrity of the neurocognitive processes driving attentional allocation, as well as the usefulness of alternative psychophysiological measures in differentiating psychopathy from general antisociality. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-ca73c8d80726409ca9cfcee7bf6a2c922025-08-20T02:33:19ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032012-01-01711e5033910.1371/journal.pone.0050339Differentiating psychopathy from general antisociality using the P3 as a psychophysiological correlate of attentional allocation.Inti A BrazilRobbert Jan VerkesBart H J BrounsJan K BuitelaarBerend H BultenEllen R A de BruijnRecent studies have shown that while psychopathy and non-psychopathic antisociality overlap, they differ in the extent to which cognitive impairments are present. Specifically, psychopathy has been related to abnormal allocation of attention, a function that is traditionally believed to be indexed by event-related potentials (ERPs) of the P3-family. Previous research examining psychophysiological correlates of attention in psychopathic individuals has mainly focused on the parietally distributed P3b component to rare targets. In contrast, very little is known about the frontocentral P3a to infrequent novel events in psychopathy. Thus, findings on the P3 components in psychopathy are inconclusive, while results in non-psychopathic antisocial populations are clearer and point toward an inverse relationship between antisociality and P3 amplitudes. The present study adds to extant literature on the P3a and P3b in psychopathy by investigating component amplitudes in psychopathic offenders (N = 20), matched non-psychopathic offenders (N = 23) and healthy controls (N = 16). Also, it was assessed how well each offender group was able to differentially process rare novel and target events. The offender groups showed general amplitude reductions compared to healthy controls, but did not differ mutually on overall P3a/P3b amplitudes. However, the psychopathic group still exhibited normal neurophysiological differentiation when allocating attention to rare novel and target events, unlike the non-psychopathic sample. The results highlight differences between psychopathic and non-psychopathic offenders regarding the integrity of the neurocognitive processes driving attentional allocation, as well as the usefulness of alternative psychophysiological measures in differentiating psychopathy from general antisociality.https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0050339&type=printable |
| spellingShingle | Inti A Brazil Robbert Jan Verkes Bart H J Brouns Jan K Buitelaar Berend H Bulten Ellen R A de Bruijn Differentiating psychopathy from general antisociality using the P3 as a psychophysiological correlate of attentional allocation. PLoS ONE |
| title | Differentiating psychopathy from general antisociality using the P3 as a psychophysiological correlate of attentional allocation. |
| title_full | Differentiating psychopathy from general antisociality using the P3 as a psychophysiological correlate of attentional allocation. |
| title_fullStr | Differentiating psychopathy from general antisociality using the P3 as a psychophysiological correlate of attentional allocation. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Differentiating psychopathy from general antisociality using the P3 as a psychophysiological correlate of attentional allocation. |
| title_short | Differentiating psychopathy from general antisociality using the P3 as a psychophysiological correlate of attentional allocation. |
| title_sort | differentiating psychopathy from general antisociality using the p3 as a psychophysiological correlate of attentional allocation |
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