Abstract
This study examines the relationship between schizotypy and the integration of audio-visual information. Schizotypy may be characterized as a predisposition to schizophrenia. The altered functional connectivity hypothesis explains schizophrenia as a disorder resulting from a failure in proper functional integration within the brain. People with schizotypal traits may also have deficits in terms of information integration for different functions. This study with a dynamic-ventriloquism task, which requires the integration of information from different modalities, indicates that high schizotypal participants were less affected by visual information. Moreover, depressive and anxiety tendencies were found to be unrelated. Thus, the results from this study suggest that people with schizotypal traits experience difficulties in information integration.
