Hoppenbrouwers: Attentional deficits in Psychopathy

Question 1

explain response modulation theory

Answer 1

psychopaths have problem suspending a response set

->changing respons as reaction on peripheral stimuli

Question 2

general setup

Answer 2

basic attention task (top down)

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exp1: bottom up cue
exp2: top down cue
exp3: testing for instruction reading

Question 3

Conclusions

Answer 3

processing contextual (peripheral information) is deficient in psychopaths (if it has a top down character)

this correlates with the core factor of psychopathy (trait1)