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Performance of long-stay schizophrenics on matched verbal and visuospatial recall tasks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Avraham Calev ,
Sanda Edelist ,
Sol Kugelmass  and
Bernard Lerer
Avraham Calev*
Affiliation:
Jerusalem Mental Health Center, Ezrath-Nashim Hospital, Jerusalem and Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Sanda Edelist
Affiliation:
Jerusalem Mental Health Center, Ezrath-Nashim Hospital, Jerusalem and Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Sol Kugelmass
Affiliation:
Jerusalem Mental Health Center, Ezrath-Nashim Hospital, Jerusalem and Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Bernard Lerer
Affiliation:
Jerusalem Mental Health Center, Ezrath-Nashim Hospital, Jerusalem and Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
*
1 Address for correspondence: Dr Avraham Calev, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Health Sciences Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11794–8101, USA.
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Synopsis

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.

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Psychological Medicine , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , August 1991 , pp. 655 - 660
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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