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SUBMITTER: Erickson MA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4332943 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Erickson Molly A MA Hahn Britta B Leonard Carly J CJ Robinson Benjamin B Gray Brad B Luck Steven J SJ Gold James J
Schizophrenia bulletin 20140716 2
The cognitive impairments associated with schizophrenia have long been known to involve deficits in working memory (WM) capacity. To date, however, the causes of WM capacity deficits remain unknown. The present study examined selective attention impairments as a putative contributor to observed capacity deficits in this population. To test this hypothesis, we used an experimental paradigm that assesses the role of selective attention in WM encoding and has been shown to involve the prefrontal co ...[more]