Question structure impacts efficiency and performance in an interactive guessing game: implications for strategy engagement and executive functioning.
In an interactive guessing game, controls had higher performance and efficiency than patients with schizophrenia in correct trials. Patients' difficulties generating efficient questions suggest an increased taxation of working memory and an inability to engage an appropriate strategy, leading to impulsive behavior and reduced success.
Department of Psychiatry, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. longenecker.julia@gmail.com
Julia
J
Longenecker
Kristy
K
Liu
Eric Y H
EY
Chen
D000328:Adult; D056344:Executive Function; D005260:Female; D005717:Games, Experimental; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011930:Reaction Time; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology