Semantic clustering of category fluency in schizophrenia examined with singular value decomposition

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 565-575

  Sung, Kyongje ^a   Gordon, Barry ^a,b   Vannorsdall, Tracy D ^a   Ledoux, Kerry ^a   Pickett, Erin J ^a   Pearlson, Godfrey D ^c,d   Schretlen, David J ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF LIVING   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Latent semantic analysis; Lexical retrieval; Schizophrenia; Semantic network; Verbal fluency; Word association

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861027055     PISSN: 13556177     EISSN: 14697661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355617712000136     Document Type: Article

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