Chronometric explorations of disordered minds

Patients with borderline personality disorder have unstable emotions, difficulty maintaining relationships and a high probability of self-inflicted damage. A recent experiment of Posner et al. that measured reaction-time differences derived from a simple task, revealed that alerting and orienting is normal in these patients. By contrast, and perhaps at the root of this personality disorder, the module responsible for cognitive conflict resolution is defective.

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