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............................................................................ ii Acknowledgements.............................................................. iv Table of contents................................................................. vi Index of tables..................................................................... xi Index of figures.................................................................... xiii Appendices........................................................................... xv CHAPTER 1 Schizotypy: a review of basic concepts and evidence....................................................... 1 1.1 The continuity of psychotic experiences............... 1 1.2 Genetic and longitudinal studies.......................... 5 1.3 Historical origins of dimensional views of psychosis....................................................... 8 1.4 Psychoticism, schizotypy and shizotaxia.............. 11 1.5 Fully dimensional versus taxonometric views of schizotypy...................................................... 15 1.6 The measurement of psychotic-like traits.............. 21 1.7 Evidence of the ‘attentional distractibility’ in schizophrenia and schizotypy............................. 24 1.8 Summary of the schizotypy view......................... 29 CHAPTER 2 The disruption of latent inhibition in schizophrenia and schizotypy......................... 31 2.1 Latent inhibition............................................... 31 2.2 Theories of latent inhibition................................ 33 2.2.1 Attentional theories.......................................... 33 2.2.2 Associative theories.......................................... 36 2.2.3 Network models............................................... 41