title: The phonological similarity effect in short-term memory serial recall in schizophrenia.
abstract: Lists of phonologically similar items are more often recalled in the wrong order than phonologically dissimilar items. At recall, patients with schizophrenia were neither especially susceptible to confusing phonologically similar items nor to making disproportionate movement (i.e. order) errors with phonologically similar lists of items. We conclude that patients with schizophrenia employ recall strategies for phonologically similar items in short-term memory that are equivalent to those of healthy controls.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Brain Disorders Branch, National Institute of Mental Health/National Institutes of Health, Building 10, Room 4S235 MSC 1379, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. elvevaab@intra.nimh.nih.gov
authors.forename: Brita
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Elvevåg
authors.forename: Daniel R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Weinberger
authors.forename: Terry E
authors.initials: TE
authors.lastname: Goldberg
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008570:Memory, Short-Term; D008875:Middle Aged; D010700:Phonetics; D011932:Reading; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012691:Serial Learning