title: Identification of tone duration, line length, and letter position: an experimental approach to timing and working memory deficits in schizophrenia.
abstract: Patients with schizophrenia display numerous cognitive deficits, including problems in working memory, time estimation, and absolute identification of stimuli. Research in these fields has traditionally been conducted independently. We examined these cognitive processes using tasks that are structurally similar and that yield rich error data. Relative to healthy control participants (n = 20), patients with schizophrenia (n = 20) were impaired on a duration identification task and a probed-recall memory task but not on a line-length identification task. These findings do not support the notion of a global impairment in absolute identification in schizophrenia. However, the authors suggest that some aspect of temporal information processing is indeed disturbed in schizophrenia.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Brain Disorders Branch, National Institute of Mental Health/National Institutes of Health, Building 10, Rm. 4S235, Building 10, MSC 1379, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. elvevaab@intra.nimh.nih.gov
authors.forename: Brita
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Elvevåg
authors.forename: Gordon D A
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: Teresa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: McCormack
authors.forename: Janet I
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Vousden
authors.forename: Terry E
authors.initials: TE
authors.lastname: Goldberg
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001307:Auditory Perception; D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008569:Memory Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D010468:Perceptual Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000453:epidemiology*; D013998:Time Perception