The Orienting Response as an Index of Attentional Dysfunction in Schizophrenia

My chapter focuses on autonomic response, primarily on skin conductance (SCR) studies of orienting, largely neglecting the EEG literature. Partly, this is a bow to the pressure of time, but partly it is a recognition of the fact that autonomic work has so far established a stronger claim to trait marker status within schizophrenia (e.g., Aim, Lindstrom, Ost, & Ohman, 1984; Ohman, in press; Venables, 1984).