Task-switching in schizophrenia: Active switching costs and passive carry-over effects in an antisaccade paradigm

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 181, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 493-502

  Greenzang, Cathleen ^a   Manoach, Dara S ^b   Goff, Donald C ^b   Barton, Jason J S ^c,d,e  

^a HARVARD COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e Vancouver General Hospital Eye Care Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antisaccades; Executive function; Reconfiguration; Schizophrenia; Task switch

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OCULAR MOTILITY DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDERS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; VOLITION;

EID: 34447505942     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-007-0946-8     Document Type: Article

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