Characterising receptive language processing in schizophrenia using word and sentence tasks

Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 14-31

  Tan, Eric J ^a,b   Yelland, Gregory W ^c   Rossell, Susan L ^a,b  

^a Alfred Hospital ^*  (Australia)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

comprehension; language; lexical semantics; Schizophrenia; syntax; thought disorder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LANGUAGE TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SPEECH DISORDER; WORD RECOGNITION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOSIS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHONETICS; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84954208049     PISSN: 13546805     EISSN: 14640619     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13546805.2015.1121866     Document Type: Article

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