IMPLICIT AND EXPLICIT ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY IN PATIENTS WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA

Citation
N. Bazin et P. Perruchet, IMPLICIT AND EXPLICIT ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY IN PATIENTS WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA, Schizophrenia research, 22(3), 1996, pp. 241-248
Citations number
21
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry,Psychiatry,"Clinical Neurology
Journal title
ISSN journal
09209964
Volume
22
Issue
3
Year of publication
1996
Pages
241 - 248
Database
ISI
SICI code
0920-9964(1996)22:3<241:IAEAMI>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
Control and Schizophrenic subjects performed memory tests under condit ions in which performance is influenced by newly acquired information about associations between pairs of normatively unrelated words (a 'co ntext' word and a target word). In Experiment 1, the associative memor y test was implicit. Control and schizophrenic subjects reached the sa me level of performance and, more importantly, both groups used contex tual information to the same extent. In Experiment 2, subjects were su bmitted to an explicit and an implicit memory test in succession. Over all performance of schizophrenic patients was impaired in the explicit memory test. But, as in Experiment 1, the two groups did not differ i n the overall level of implicit memory, and context improved performan ce to the same extent in both tests. These results run counter to the widespread idea that schizophrenic patients exhibit a deficit in proce ssing all types of contexts, and suggest that the deficit may be limit ed to the processing of what Baddeley (1982) calls 'interactive' conte xt.