Evaluating lexical characteristics of verbal fluency output in schizophrenia

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 200, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 177-183

  Juhasz, Barbara J ^a   Chambers, Destinee ^a   Shesler, Leah W ^a   Haber, Alix ^a   Kurtz, Matthew M ^a  

^a WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age of acquisition; Lexical characteristics; Schizophrenia; Verbal fluency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SPEECH; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84872381434     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2012.06.035     Document Type: Article

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