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Cognitive Control and Discourse Comprehension in Schizophrenia
Joint Authors
Carter, Cameron S.
Boudewyn, Megan A.
Swaab, Tamara Y.
Source
Schizophrenia Research and Treatment
Issue
Vol. 2012, Issue 2012 (31 Dec. 2012), pp.1-7, 7 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2012-04-08
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
7
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Cognitive deficits across a wide range of domains have been consistently observed in schizophrenia and are linked to poor functional outcome (Green, 1996; Carter, 2006).
Language abnormalities are among the most salient and include disorganized speech as well as deficits in comprehension.
In this review, we aim to evaluate impairments of language processing in schizophrenia in relation to a domain-general control deficit.
We first provide an overview of language comprehension in the healthy human brain, stressing the role of cognitive control processes, especially during discourse comprehension.
We then discuss cognitive control deficits in schizophrenia, before turning to evidence suggesting that schizophrenia patients are particularly impaired at processing meaningful discourse as a result of deficits in control functions.
We conclude that domain-general control mechanisms are impaired in schizophrenia and that during language comprehension this is most likely to result in difficulties during the processing of discourse-level context, which involves integrating and maintaining multiple levels of meaning.
Finally, we predict that language comprehension in schizophrenia patients will be most impaired during discourse processing.
We further suggest that discourse comprehension problems in schizophrenia might be mitigated when conflicting information is absent and strong relations amongst individual words are present in the discourse context.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Boudewyn, Megan A.& Carter, Cameron S.& Swaab, Tamara Y.. 2012. Cognitive Control and Discourse Comprehension in Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research and Treatment،Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-7.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Boudewyn, Megan A.…[et al.]. Cognitive Control and Discourse Comprehension in Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research and Treatment No. 2012 (2012), pp.1-7.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Boudewyn, Megan A.& Carter, Cameron S.& Swaab, Tamara Y.. Cognitive Control and Discourse Comprehension in Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research and Treatment. 2012. Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-475293
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-475293