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Visual search for verbal material in patients with obsessive–compulsive disorder

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This study aimed at investigating attentional mechanisms in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) by analysing how visual search processes are modulated by normal and obsession-related distracting information in OCD patients and whether these modulations differ from those observed in healthy people. OCD patients were asked to search for a target word within distractor words that could be orthographically similar to the target, semantically related to the target, semantically related to the most typical obsessions/compulsions observed in OCD patients, or unrelated to the target. Patients' performance and eye movements were compared with those of individually matched healthy controls. In controls, the distractors that were visually similar to the target mostly captured attention. Conversely, patients' attention was captured equally by all kinds of distractor words, whatever their similarity with the target, except obsession-related distractors that attracted patients' attention less than the other distractors. OCD had a major impact on the mostly subliminal mechanisms that guide attention within the search display, but had much less impact on the distractor rejection processes that take place when a distractor is fixated. Hence, visual search in OCD is characterized by abnormal subliminal, but not supraliminal, processing of obsession-related information and by an impaired ability to inhibit task-irrelevant inputs.
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hal-01927204 , version 1 (19-11-2018)

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Fabiano Botta, Nicolas Vibert, Ghina Harika-Germaneau, Mickaël Frasca, François Rigalleau, et al.. Visual search for verbal material in patients with obsessive–compulsive disorder. Psychiatry Research, 2018, 264, pp.244 - 253. ⟨10.1016/j.psychres.2018.03.054⟩. ⟨hal-01927204⟩
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