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How creativity and psychosis proneness affect visual salience attribution?

Sometimes people pay attention to objects that others overlook. In creativity research, this tendency is described as “leaky” attention, allowing creative individuals to notice what others miss. In psychopathology, a similar tendency to attribute importance to irrelevant information is believed to contribute to delusions and hallucinations.

This apparent similarity fuels the creativity-psychopathology debate. This project explores whether the two share similar perceptual mechanisms. Using eye-tracking and behavioural methods, it investigates how aberrant salience in psychosis proneness and creativity are related to how people look at objects either closely or remotely related to each other.

This project is funded by the Carnegie Trust