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Selective retrieval and free emission of category exemplars in schizophrenia
Author(s) -
Allen Heidelinde A.,
Frith Christopher D.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1983.tb01881.x
Subject(s) - psychology , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , task (project management) , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , psychiatry , management , economics
In a free emission task, normals, chronic schizophrenics with only positive and those with only negative symptoms generated as many exemplars from natural language categories as they could in three minutes. While the overall output level of both schizophrenic groups was lower than that of the normals, neither showed intrusions of unrelated words, and the temporal distribution of the output was marked by a clustering pattern inconsistent with a selective attention deficit hypothesis.