Abnormal typicality of responses on a category fluency task in schizotypy

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 145, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 119-126

  Kiang, Michael ^a   Kutas, Marta ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Category fluency; Language; Neuropsychological tests; Schizophrenia; Schizotypal personality; Semantic processing; Typicality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUENCY DISORDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL TASK; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; SCORING SYSTEM; SEMANTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; SEMANTICS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33750937964     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2005.12.010     Document Type: Article

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