Schizotypal thinking and associative processing: A response commonality analysis of verbal fluency

Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 56-60

  Duchêne, Alexandre ^a   Graves, Roger E ^b   Brugger, Peter ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Association; Cognition; Language disorders; Schizophrenic language; Schizotypal personality disorder; Thinking; Verbal behaviour; Word association tests

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0031603063     PISSN: 11804882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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