TY - JOUR
T1 - Distractibility and discourse failure
T2 - Their association in mania and schizophrenia
AU - Harvey, Philip D.
AU - Earle-Boyer, Elizabeth A.
AU - Levinson, Joyce C.
PY - 1986/5
Y1 - 1986/5
N2 - Manic (N = 18) and schizophrenic (N = 23) patients were evaluated with a linguistic assessment of reference failures and were tested with a digit span distraction task. It was found that, although manics and schizophrenics did not differ in their distraction performance, there were differential relationships between task performance and reference performance across the two subject samples. Both distraction and nondistraction performances were related equally to discourse failures in manics while distraction performance was a much better predictor of discourse failure than nondistraction performance in the schizophrenic sample. The fact that susceptibility to the effects of distraction seemed to be an important and specific predictor of discourse failures in schizophrenia is discussed in terms of recent developments in research and theory regarding schizophrenic speech disorders.
AB - Manic (N = 18) and schizophrenic (N = 23) patients were evaluated with a linguistic assessment of reference failures and were tested with a digit span distraction task. It was found that, although manics and schizophrenics did not differ in their distraction performance, there were differential relationships between task performance and reference performance across the two subject samples. Both distraction and nondistraction performances were related equally to discourse failures in manics while distraction performance was a much better predictor of discourse failure than nondistraction performance in the schizophrenic sample. The fact that susceptibility to the effects of distraction seemed to be an important and specific predictor of discourse failures in schizophrenia is discussed in terms of recent developments in research and theory regarding schizophrenic speech disorders.
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U2 - 10.1097/00005053-198605000-00003
DO - 10.1097/00005053-198605000-00003
M3 - Article
C2 - 3701315
AN - SCOPUS:0022444549
VL - 174
SP - 274
EP - 279
JO - Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
JF - Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
SN - 0022-3018
IS - 5
ER -