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Toward the more direct study of attention in schizophrenia: Alertness decrement and encoding facilitation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Daniel W. Smothergill
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Syracuse University, Syracuse NY 13244 Electronic mail: [email protected]
Alan G. Kraut
Affiliation:
American Psychological Society, 1511 K Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005 Electronic mail: [email protected]

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