Working memory constrains abstraction in schizophrenia

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 34-42

  Glahn, David C ^a   Cannon, Tyrone D ^b   Gur, Raquel E ^a   Ragland, J Daniel ^a   Gur, Ruben C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Frontal lobes; Problem solving; Schizophrenia; Wisconsin Card Sorting Test; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INTELLIGENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERSEVERATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SYMPTOM; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0034653193     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(99)00187-0     Document Type: Article

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