Selective attention and levels of coding in schizophrenia.
Traditional explanations of schizophrenics' cognitive deficits have considered faulty selective attention as a single stage, categorical phenomenon. This study examined selective attention as a process that operates with varying degrees of efficiency throughout information processing, including the recoding of stimuli from the perceptual register. The results suggested both a deficiency in the reservoir of attentional capacity for schizophrenics and a greater depletion of such capacity.
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Department of Psychology, Kent State University, OH 44242-0001.
Pithers
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D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D003071:Cognition; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008570:Memory, Short-Term; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010465:Perception; D011930:Reaction Time; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology