Am J Psychiatry 1990; 147:513-515
Copyright © 1990 by American Psychiatric Association
Effect of distraction on communication failures in schizophrenic patients
AP Hotchkiss and PD Harvey
State University of New York, Binghamton.
Manic, schizophrenic, and normal subjects were interviewed in the presence
and absence of distracting information, and their speech performance was
evaluated. Normal and manic subjects were unaffected by irrelevant
information. Schizophrenic subjects manifested more reference failures
during distraction than during nondistraction periods.
