Translating basic attentional paradigms to schizophrenia research: Reconsidering the nature of the deficits

Development and Psychopathology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 831-851

  Nuechterlein, Keith H ^a   Pashler, Harold E ^b   Subotnik, Kenneth L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISEASE COURSE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; MENTAL TASK; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; REFRACTORY PERIOD; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL DISABILITY; SYMPTOM; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORK DISABILITY;

ATTENTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; REFRACTORY PERIOD, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RESEARCH; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 33749033926     PISSN: 09545794     EISSN: 14692198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S095457940606041X     Document Type: Article

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