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Psychiatry Research

Volume 53, Issue 2, August 1994, Pages 141-151
Psychiatry Research

Cognitive correlates to social cue perception in schizophrenia

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Abstract

Previous research has examined social skill learning in schizophrenic patients in relation to information-processing deficits and psychiatric symptoms. Relationships were examined in the current report between social cue perception, thought to be an early and necessary component of skill learning, and various information-processing deficits and psychiatric symptoms. Twenty-six inpatients with DSM-III-R diagnoses of schizophrenia completed measures of social cue perception, cognitive functioning, and psychiatric symptoms. Results showed that cue perception was significantly related to measures of early visual processing, recognition memory, and psychiatric symptoms of withdrawal/retardation Implications of these findings for future research into the social-perceptual deficits of schizophrenic patients are discussed.

Keywords

Social skills training
rehabilitation
information processing
psychiatric symptoms

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