The relationship between working memory capacity and broad measures of cognitive ability in healthy adults and people with schizophrenia

Neuropsychology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 220-229

  Johnson, Melissa K ^a   McMahon, Robert P ^b   Robinson, Benjamin M ^b   Harvey, Alexander N ^b   Hahn, Britta ^b   Leonard, Carly J ^c   Luck, Steven J ^c   Gold, James M ^b  

^a Baltimore VA Mental Health Care System   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Intelligence; Schizophrenia; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATRICS CONSENSUS COGNITIVE BATTERY; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; WECHSLER ABBREVIATED SCALE OF INTELLIGENCE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84880925694     PISSN: 08944105     EISSN: 19311559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0032060     Document Type: Article

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