Working Memory Deficits in Schizophrenia and Strategy for Remediation
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Authors
Brown, Nicholas K.
Issue Date
1999
Type
Thesis
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en_US
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Abstract
The working memory and prefrontal deficit in schizophrenia is a reliable finding,
supported by both cognitive and anatomical studies. This deficit has been remediated in
many studies by giving detailed instructions to schizophrenic participants of the test
being performed to measure working memory. These detailed instructions introduce
confounding variables, however: the social contact of an experimenter giving the
instructions and the affect of the experimenter. This study attempts to isolate and test one
of these variables, affect, on schizophrenics' working memory. The study varies affect of
a recorded voice played by a computer, eliminating the social context provided by an
experimenter.
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28 p.
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