Evidence of semantic disorganisation using semantic priming in individuals with high schizotypy

Schizophrenia Research

Volumn 84, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 272-280

  Morgan, C ^a,c   Bedford, N ^a   Rossell, S L ^a,b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Schizophrenia; Schizotypy; Semantic disorganisation; Semantic priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADULT; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; SEMANTICS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33646692695     PISSN: 09209964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2006.01.020     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Barch D.M., Cohen J.D., Servan-Schreiber D., Steingard S., Steinhauer S.S., and van Kammen D.P. Semantic priming in schizophrenia: the influence of anti-psychotic medication and thought disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 105 (1996) 592-601
2. Battig W.F., and Montague W.E. Category norms of verbal items in 56 categories. A replication and extension of the Connecticut category norms. Journal of Experimental Psychology 80 (1969) 1-46
3. Bentall R.P., Claridge G.S., and Slade P.D. The multidimensional nature of schizotypal traits: a factor analytic study with normal subjects. British Journal of Clinical Psychology 28 (1989) 363-375
4. Bleuler E. Dementia Praecox oder Gruppe der Schizophrenien (1911), Deuticke, Leipzig
5. Brebion G., David A.S., Jones H., and Pilowsky L.S. Semantic organization and verbal memory efficiency in patients with schizophrenia. Neuropsychology 18 (2004) 378-383
6. Callaway E., and Nagdhi S. An information processing model for schizophrenia. Archives of General Psychiatry 39 (1982) 339-347
7. Chadwick P., Birchwood M., and Trower P. Cognitive Therapy for Delusions, Voices and Paranoia (1996), Wiley, Chichester, England
8. Chapman L.J., Chapman J.P., Kwapil T.R., Eckblad M., and Zinser M. Putatively psychosis-prone subjects 10 years later. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 103 (1994) 171-181
9. Chwilla D.J., Hagoort P., and Brown C.M. The mechanism underlying backward priming in a lexical decision task: spreading activation versus semantic matching. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Experimental Psychology 51 (1998) 531-568
10. Claridge G. Theoretical background and issues. In: Claridge G.S. (Ed). Schizotypy: Implications for Health and Illness (1997), Oxford University Press, Oxford 3-18
11. Claridge G.S. 'The schizophrenias as nervous types' revisited. British Journal of Psychiatry 151 (1987) 735-743
12. Condray R., Steinhauer S.R., Cohen J.D., van Kammen D.P., and Kasparek A. Modulation of language processing in schizophrenia: effects of context and haloperidol on the event-related potential. Biological Psychiatry 45 (1999) 1336-1355
13. Fischler I. Associative facilitation without expectancy in a lexical decision task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 3 (1977) 18-26
14. Fisher M., and Weinman J. Priming, word recognition and psychotic tendencies. Personality and Individual Differences 10 (1989) 185-189
15. Launay G., and Slade P.D. The measurement of hallucinatory predisposition in male and female prisoners. Personality and Individual Differences 2 (1981) 221-234
16. Mason O., Claridge G.S., and Jackson M. New scales for the assessment of schizotypy. Personality and Individual Differences 18 (1995) 7-13
17. Meyer D.E., and Schvaneveldt R.W. Facilitation in recognizing pairs of words: evidence of a dependence between retrieval operations. Journal of Experimental Psychology 20 (1971) 227-234
18. Minzenberg M.J., Ober B.A., and Vinogradov S. Semantic priming in schizophrenia: a review and synthesis. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 8 (2002) 699-720
19. Morgan C.J., Rossell S.L., Pepper F., Blackburn J., Brandner B., and Curran H.V. Semantic priming after ketamine acutely in healthy volunteers and following chronic self-administration in substance users. Biological Psychiatry 29 (2006) 265-272
20. Moritz S., Andresen B., Domin F., Martin T., Probsthein E., Kretschmer G., Krausz M., Naber D., and Spitzer M. Increased automatic spreading of activation in healthy subjects with elevated scores in a scale assessing schizophrenic language disturbances. Psychological Medicine 29 (1999) 161-170
21. Moritz S., Mersmann K., Kloss M., Jacobsen D., Wilke U., Andersen B., Naber D., and Pawlik K. 'Hyper-priming' in thought disordered schizophrenic patients. Psychological Medicine 31 (2001) 221-229
22. Moritz S., Woodward T.S., Kuppers D., Lausen A., and Schickel M. Increased automatic spreading of activation in thought-disordered schizophrenic patients. Schizophrenia Research 59 (2003) 181-186
23. Neely J.H. Semantic priming and retrieval from lexical memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 106 (1977) 226-254
24. Neely J.H., and Keefe D.E. Semantic context effects on visual word processing: a hybrid prospective/ retrospective processing theory. In: Bower G.H. (Ed). The Psychology of Learning and Motivation: Advances in Research and Theory (1989), Academic Press, New York 207-248
25. Nelson H.E. National Adult Reading Test (NART): Test Manual (1982), NFER, Nelson, Windsor, UK
26. Nuechterlein K.H., and Dawson M.E. A heuristic vulnerability/stress model of schizophrenic episodes. Schizophrenia Bulletin 10 (1984) 300-312
27. Passerieux C., Hardy-Bayle M.C., and Widlocher D. Semantic inhibition disorders in schizophrenic patients assessed by a lexical decision task. European Psychiatry 10 (1995) 36-43
28. Peters E.R., Joseph S.A., and Garety P.A. Measurement of delusional ideation in the normal population: introducing the PDI (Peters et al., Delusions Inventory). Schizophrenia Bulletin 25 (1999) 553-576
29. Nunn J., and Peters E.R. Schizotypy and patterns of lateral asymmetry on hemispheric language tasks. Psychiatry Research 103 (2001) 179-192
30. Peters E.R., Pickering A.D., and Hemsley D.R. 'Cognitive inhibition' and positive symptomatology in schizotypy. British Journal of Clinical Psychology 33 (1994) 33-48
31. Pizzagalli D., Lehmann D., and Brugger P. Lateralized direct and indirect semantic priming effects in subjects with paranormal experiences and beliefs. Psychopathology 34 (2001) 75-80
32. Rossell S.L., and David A.S. Are semantic deficits in schizophrenia due to problems with access or storage?. Schizophrenia Research 82 (2006) 121-134
33. Rossell S.L., Rabe-Hesketh S.S., Shapleske J.S., and David A.S. Is semantic fluency differentially impaired in schizophrenic patients with delusions?. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology 21 (1999) 629-642
34. Rossell S.L., Price C.J., and Nobre A.C. The anatomy and time course of semantic priming investigated by fMRI and ERPs. Neuropscyhologia 41 (2003) 550-564
35. Rossell S.L., Shapleske J., and David A.S. Sentence verification and delusions: a content-specific deficit. Pschological Medicine 28 (1998) 1189-1198
36. Rossell S.L., Shapleske J., and David A.S. Direct and indirect semantic priming with neutral and emotional stimuli in schizophrenia: relationship with delusions. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry 5 (2000) 271-292
37. Spitzer M., Braun U., Hermle L., and Maier S. Associative semantic network dysfunction in thought disordered schizophrenic patients: direct evidence for indirect semantic priming. Biological Psychiatry 34 (1993) 864-877
38. Vinogradov S., Ober B.A., and Shenaut G.K. Semantic priming of word pronunciation and lexical decision in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research 8 (1992) 171-181
39. Warrington E.K. The selective impairment of semantic memory. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 27 (1975) 635-657
40. Warrington E.K., and Cipolotti L. Word comprehension: the distinction between refractory and storage impairments. Brain (1996) 611-625
41. Warrington E.K., and Shallice T. Semantic access dyslexia. Brain (1979) 43-63