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Speech Perception in Schizophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Helen C. Bull  and
Peter H. Venables
Helen C. Bull
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HX
Peter H. Venables
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HX
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Although there have been several reports of investigations of speech perception in schizophrenia (Laffal, 1961; Lawson, McGhie and Chapman, 1964) in all cases the assumption was made that the patients’ difficulties arose, not from an inability to perceive the individual words, but from a deficiency in perceiving the words in a meaningful relationship to each other, as part of an organized pattern. In this study, however, instead of examining the performance of schizophrenic patients on a task involving the perception of sentences, as these earlier workers had done, we have used individual words as stimuli in a series of tests of speech perception.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 125 , Issue 587 , October 1974 , pp. 350 - 354
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1974 

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