Thus, both FHx and UHR individuals show evidence of impairments in cognitive functioning relative to healthy individuals. Moreover, cognitive impairments are present prior to the typical age of onset of schizophrenia, suggesting that neurocognitive impairments index vulnerability for schizophrenia. Examining neurocognitive functioning among children presenting antecedents of schizophrenia could provide important information about alternative trajectories of risk for illness than that conferred by family history of illness. Based on this approach, one recent study reported that young adolescents with psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) at clinical interview displayed slower processing speed and poorer non-verbal working memory relative to healthy adolescents without PLEs