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Selective attention and levels of coding in schizophrenia
Author(s) -
Hirt Michael,
Pithers William
Publication year - 1991
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.2044-8260.1991.tb00929.x
Subject(s) - psychology , cognition , coding (social sciences) , selective attention , cognitive psychology , categorical variable , perception , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , information processing , developmental psychology , neuroscience , psychiatry , statistics , mathematics , machine learning , computer science
Traditional explanations of schizophrenics' cognitive deficits have considered faulty selective attention as a single stage, categorical phenomenon. This study examined selective attention as a process that operates with varying degrees of efficiency throughout information processing, including the recoding of stimuli from the perceptual register. The results suggested both a deficiency in the reservoir of attentional capacity for schizophrenics and a greater depletion of such capacity.