title: Performance of long-stay schizophrenics on matched verbal and visuospatial recall tasks.
abstract: A verbal and a visuospatial recall task were compared for discriminating power, using the matched-tasks methodology. These tasks were administered to long-hospitalized schizophrenics. No evidence of a differential deficit, that is, better recall of either the verbal or the visuospatial materials, emerged in the patients. The results replicate a former finding showing no difference between verbal and visuospatial recall in schizophrenics, using memory tasks which were less sensitive as left- and right-hemisphere measures and a non-verbal task less affected by verbal mediation. This replication questions the assumption that the hemispheric differences observed in schizophrenics affect such memory tasks.
authors.affiliation: Jerusalem Mental Health Center, Ezrath-Nashim Hospital.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Calev
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Edelist
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kugelmass
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Lerer
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention / Q000187:drug effects; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000187:drug effects; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000523:psychology*; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000187:drug effects; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D014706:Verbal Learning / Q000187:drug effects