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Conference Paper: Syntax and verbal working memory in schizophrenia: the role of language in facilitating serial recall
Title | Syntax and verbal working memory in schizophrenia: the role of language in facilitating serial recall |
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Issue Date | 2014 |
Publisher | Hong Kong Academy of Medicine Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://easap.asia/index.htm |
Citation | The 2014 Regional Congress of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA), Hong Kong, 12-14 December 2014. In East Asian Archives of Psychiatry, 2014, v. 24 n. 4 suppl., p. 104, abstract G18 How to Cite? |
Abstract | OBJECTIVE: Deficits in verbal working memory have been consistently observed in schizophrenic patients, ranging from impairments in capacity, encoding to irregular semantic organisation.1 Deficits concerning syntax are less well-characterised. This study examined the role of simple syntactic structure (basis of the “sentence superiority effect”) in verbal memory,2,3 comparing patients and controls. METHODS: Patients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders (n = 40) and healthy controls matched on age, sex, and education (n = 40) were administered an auditory serial recall task containing word lists with low semantic coherence and either syntactic structure (noun-verb-noun) or no structure. Other neurocognitive measures, symptom and social functioning of patients were also assessed. RESULTS: Three-way between-subjects ANOVA (version × list type × serial position) showed that patients had significantly worse performance overall, indicating a generalised verbal memory impairment. Significant interaction was found for list type × Group, demonstrating that healthy controls, but not patients, had superior performance in syntactic word lists. Further analysis of high-performing patients revealed that the interaction was not an artifact of poor verbal memory, but a selective deficit in syntactic facilitation. CONCLUSION: The findings support language-based accounts of verbal working memory, and suggest that semantics and syntax facilitate memory through distinct processes.4 Results show that schizophrenic patients have deficits in utilizing syntactic structure, implicating dysfunction in the procedural memory system, rooted in the frontal and parietal cortices and basal ganglia. |
Description | Congress Theme: Yin and Yang of Mental Health in Asia - Balancing Polarities Category G – Schizophrenia and Psychotic Disorders: no. G18 |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/214261 |
ISSN | 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.364 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Li, A | - |
dc.contributor.author | Chen, EYH | - |
dc.contributor.author | Chang, WC | - |
dc.contributor.author | Chan, SKW | - |
dc.contributor.author | Lee, EHM | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-08-21T11:06:25Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2015-08-21T11:06:25Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | The 2014 Regional Congress of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA), Hong Kong, 12-14 December 2014. In East Asian Archives of Psychiatry, 2014, v. 24 n. 4 suppl., p. 104, abstract G18 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 2078-9947 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/214261 | - |
dc.description | Congress Theme: Yin and Yang of Mental Health in Asia - Balancing Polarities | - |
dc.description | Category G – Schizophrenia and Psychotic Disorders: no. G18 | - |
dc.description.abstract | OBJECTIVE: Deficits in verbal working memory have been consistently observed in schizophrenic patients, ranging from impairments in capacity, encoding to irregular semantic organisation.1 Deficits concerning syntax are less well-characterised. This study examined the role of simple syntactic structure (basis of the “sentence superiority effect”) in verbal memory,2,3 comparing patients and controls. METHODS: Patients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders (n = 40) and healthy controls matched on age, sex, and education (n = 40) were administered an auditory serial recall task containing word lists with low semantic coherence and either syntactic structure (noun-verb-noun) or no structure. Other neurocognitive measures, symptom and social functioning of patients were also assessed. RESULTS: Three-way between-subjects ANOVA (version × list type × serial position) showed that patients had significantly worse performance overall, indicating a generalised verbal memory impairment. Significant interaction was found for list type × Group, demonstrating that healthy controls, but not patients, had superior performance in syntactic word lists. Further analysis of high-performing patients revealed that the interaction was not an artifact of poor verbal memory, but a selective deficit in syntactic facilitation. CONCLUSION: The findings support language-based accounts of verbal working memory, and suggest that semantics and syntax facilitate memory through distinct processes.4 Results show that schizophrenic patients have deficits in utilizing syntactic structure, implicating dysfunction in the procedural memory system, rooted in the frontal and parietal cortices and basal ganglia. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Hong Kong Academy of Medicine Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://easap.asia/index.htm | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | East Asian Archives of Psychiatry | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | 東亞精神科學志 | - |
dc.rights | East Asian Archives of Psychiatry. Copyright © Hong Kong Academy of Medicine Press. | - |
dc.title | Syntax and verbal working memory in schizophrenia: the role of language in facilitating serial recall | - |
dc.type | Conference_Paper | - |
dc.identifier.email | Chen, EYH: eyhchen@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.email | Chang, WC: changwc@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.email | Chan, SKW: kwsherry@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.email | Lee, EHM: edwinlhm@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Chen, EYH=rp00392 | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Chang, WC=rp01465 | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Chan, SKW=rp00539 | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Lee, EHM=rp01575 | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_OA_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 249143 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 24 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 4 suppl. | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 104, abstract G18 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 104, abstract G18 | - |
dc.publisher.place | Hong Kong | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 2078-9947 | - |