Contextual Insensitivity in Thought-Disordered Schizophrenic Patients: Evidence from Pauses in Spontaneous Speech | Zendy

Manfred Spitzer | Zendy; Jutta Beuckers | Zendy; Susanne Beyer | Zendy; Sabine Maier | Zendy; Leo Hermle | Zendy

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Contextual Insensitivity in Thought-Disordered Schizophrenic Patients: Evidence from Pauses in Spontaneous Speech

Author(s) -

Manfred Spitzer,

Jutta Beuckers,

Susanne Beyer,

Sabine Maier,

Leo Hermle

Publication year - 1994

Publication title -

language and speech

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.713

H-Index - 52

eISSN - 1756-6053

pISSN - 0023-8309

DOI - 10.1177/002383099403700205

Subject(s) - psychology , context (archaeology) , noun , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , thought disorder , dependency (uml) , associative property , cognitive psychology , audiology , linguistics , psychosis , medicine , philosophy , psychiatry , artificial intelligence , computer science , mathematics , paleontology , pure mathematics , biology

The distribution of pauses in spontaneous speech of schizophrenic patients was studied. Normal control subjects and schizophrenic patients without thought disorder pause more frequently before nouns not suggested by the context, and less frequently before nouns suggested by the context. No context dependency of the pauses before nouns was found in thought-disordered schizophrenic patients. The data are interpreted in terms of a reduced signal-to-noise ratio in semantic associative networks responsible for lexical access in thought-disordered schizophrenic patients.

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