ulus motion. Overall, the results showed that the higher the perceptual load, the stronger the bias to report

www.elsevier.com/locate/paid Personality and Individual Differences 41 (2006) 951–9580191-8869/ $- see front matter 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.seeing words in non-word trials. However, the observed bias was associated with positive schizotypy (Unu-sual Experiences) only when visual detection was performed under conditions of medium perceptual load. No schizotypy measure was associated with accuracy. The results suggest that, although some amount of perceptual ambiguity seems to be necessary for schizotypal bias generation, an increase in the perceptual load can inhibit this process possibly by preventing perception of task-irrelevant internal events, such as loose word associations.