Grammatical processing in schizophrenia: Evidence from morphology

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 262-269

  Walenski, Matthew ^a   Weickert, Thomas W ^b,c   Maloof, Christopher J ^d   Ullman, Michael T ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Inflection; Prefrontal cortex; Striatum; Temporal lobe; Thought disorder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; THOUGHT DISORDER;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY;

EID: 71549126222     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.09.012     Document Type: Article

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