ATTENTION AND WORKING MEMORY IN SCHIZOPHRENIA

这个子项目是许多研究子项目中利用 资源由NIH/NCRR资助的中心拨款提供。子项目和 调查员(PI)可能从NIH的另一个来源获得了主要资金， 并因此可以在其他清晰的条目中表示。列出的机构是 该中心不一定是调查人员的机构。 认知障碍是精神分裂症的一个主要特征。这项研究将考察注意力在精神分裂症患者和健康对照组的视觉知觉和工作记忆中的作用。这项研究的目标是衡量注意力在与精神分裂症相关的广泛认知障碍中的独特贡献。假设精神分裂症患者在工作记忆任务中的注意操作中会表现出特定的缺陷，而在知觉加工的操作中注意力可能是完整的。

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. Cognitive impairment is a central feature of schizophrenia. This study will examine the role of attention in both visual perception and working memory in people with schizophrenia and healthy controls. The goal of this research is to measure the unique contribution of attention in the broad cognitive impairment that is associated with schizophrenia. It is hypothesized that patients wil schizophrenia will demonstrate a specific deficit in the operation of attention during working memory tasks while attention may be intact during the operation of perceptual processing.