Capacity limitations in short-term memory in schizophrenia: Tests of competing hypotheses

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 665-673

  Goldberg, T E ^a,b   Patterson, K J ^a   Taqqu, Y ^a   Wilder, K ^a  

^a Neurosci Center at St Elizabeths   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SERIAL LEARNING; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0031745707     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291797006429     Document Type: Article

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