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The Effect of Verbal Context on the Recall of Schizophrenics and other Psychiatric Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

R. Levy
Affiliation:
Academic Department of Psychiatry, Middlesex Hospital Medical School, London
A. E. Maxwell
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, The Maudsley Hospital, London

Extract

Recent workers investigating psychological dysfunction in schizophrenic patients have stressed the fact that such patients appear to have some specific difficulty in speech perception. It has been claimed that schizophrenics require more cues in order to reproduce verbal material accurately. This disability has been analysed by methods inspired by the work of communication engineers.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1968 

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