Spatial attentional control is not impaired in schizophrenia: Dissociating specific deficits from generalized impairments.
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SUBMITTER: Elshaikh AA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4428930 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May
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Spatial attentional control is not impaired in schizophrenia: Dissociating specific deficits from generalized impairments.
Elshaikh Ansam A AA Sponheim Scott R SR Chafee Matt V MV MacDonald Angus W AW
Journal of abnormal psychology 20141229 2
A large literature has established that people with schizophrenia are impaired on tasks that require attentional control. However, evidence is mixed as to whether these impairments are specific deficits (Oltmanns & Neale, 1975) or merely reflect a generalized impairment (Dickinson & Harvey, 2009). Recent evidence also suggests visual attentional control for encoding into working memory may be selectively spared in people with schizophrenia (Gold et al., 2006). The current study used a cued backw ...[more]
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