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Improving schizophrenic in‐patients' Wisconsin card‐sorting performance
Author(s) -
Nisbet Heidi,
Siegert Richard,
Hunt Maree,
Fairley Nigel
Publication year - 1996
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.2044-8260.1996.tb01219.x
Subject(s) - wisconsin card sorting test , psychology , card sorting , frontal lobe , test (biology) , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , sorting , psychiatry , audiology , cognition , medicine , neuropsychology , task (project management) , paleontology , management , computer science , programming language , economics , biology
The effectiveness of a training procedure to improve schizophrenic patients' Wisconsin Card Sorting Test performance was investigated. In the absence of the monetary incentive often employed, 10 schizophrenic in‐patients' performance improved with training. This study provides further evidence that the cognitive deficiency associated with the frontal lobe, implied by schizophrenic patients' typically poor Wisconsin Card‐Sorting Test performance, is remediable.