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Chord perception in schizophrenia *
Author(s) -
Green Elizabeth J.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
british journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0144-6657
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1986.tb00672.x
Subject(s) - psychology , perception , chord (peer to peer) , comprehension , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , cognitive psychology , audiology , task (project management) , developmental psychology , psychiatry , neuroscience , linguistics , medicine , distributed computing , philosophy , management , economics , computer science
Groups of acute schizophrenics and normal controls were presented with two tasks involving the perception of musical chords. There were no significant differences in performance due to ear of presentation (left, right or both). Taking performance over all conditions, the schizophrenic group was not significantly different from the controls on one of the two tasks although it was significantly worse on the other. These findings contrast with earlier results using a story comprehension task which suggests that the schizophrenic deficit in performance found in those studies may be specific to the processing of verbal information.