Impairments in basic cognitive processes such as attention and working memory are
commonly observed in people with schizophrenia and are predictive of long-term outcome …

Schizophrenia, a severe and debilitating disorder with a high social burden, affects 1% of
the adult world population. Available therapies are unable to treat all the symptoms, and …

Background Working memory (WM) has been a central focus of cognitive neuroscience
research because WM is a resource that is involved in many different cognitive operations …

PFC dysfunction is widely believed to underlie working memory (WM) deficits in people with
schizophrenia (PSZ), but few studies have focused on measures of WM storage devoid of …

Recent evidence suggests that schizophrenia involves hyperfocusing, an unusually narrow
but intense focusing of processing resources. This appears to contradict the classic idea that …

Working memory (WM) refers to the ability to maintain a small number of representations in
an activated, easily accessible state for a short period of time in the service of ongoing …

Background Although patients with schizophrenia (PSZ) frequently exhibit reduced working
memory capacity relative to healthy control subjects (HCS), the mechanisms that underlie …

Schizophrenia clearly involves impairments of attention, but the precise nature of these
impairments has been difficult to determine. One possibility is that the deficit in attention is a …

Objective To better understand the origins of working memory (WM) impairment in
schizophrenia we investigated cortical oscillatory activity in people with schizophrenia (PSZ) …

People with schizophrenia suffer from hallucinations and delusions as well as from
significant cognitive impairments. Working memory is a critical resource for many complex …