Enhanced semantic priming in schizophrenia: A computer model based on excessive pruning of local connections in association cortex

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 180, Issue APR., 2002, Pages 345-350

  Siekmeier, Peter J ^a   Hoffman, Ralph E ^a  

^a Yale New Haven Psychiatric Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PROCESS DESIGN; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEMANTICS; SYNAPSE;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN DISEASES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MEMORY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SEMANTICS; THINKING; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0036116169     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.180.4.345     Document Type: Article

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