Journal
PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
Volume 42, Issue 3, Pages 585-595Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2006.07.023
Keywords
psychopathy; conflict monitoring; anterior cingulate cortex
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [P20 GM103653] Funding Source: Medline
- NIMH NIH HHS [R01 MH078980-01, R01 MH053041, R01 MH078980] Funding Source: Medline
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Attentional models of psychopathy hold that psychopathic individuals fail to process information that conflicts with goal-directed behavior. However, they display normal interference on color-word Stroop tasks. To determine whether psychopathic individuals' attention deficits Lire specific to conditions associated with the anterior cingulate (ACC) conflict monitoring system, we administered a Stroop task with a mostly-congruent condition associated with ACC activation, and a mostly-incongruent condition that is not, to 128 criminal offenders assessed for psychopathy using Hare's (2003) PCL-R. Despite replicating previous condition effects associated with differential ACC activation (Carter et al., 2000), psychopathic offenders and controls performed very similarly in both conditions. Results do not support an association between ACC-related deficits in conflict monitoring and the attention deficits of psychopathic offenders. (c) 2006 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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