Background: Enhanced automatic spreading of activation in the semantic network has been
suggested to underlie formal thought disorder in patients with schizophrenia, but it is not …

Previous research on semantic priming in schizophrenia has produced conflicting findings.
While several studies provided evidence for an enhanced cognitive spreading of activation …

Previous research on semantic priming in schizophrenia has produced contradictory
findings. For the present study, it was intended to resolve some of the ambiguities in the …

Abstract Schizophrenic individuals (n= 31), including paranoid and nonparanoid diagnostic
subgroups, and normal controls (n= 20) participated in a semantic priming experiment …

BACKGROUND: Semantic priming is a function related to prefrontal cortical (PFC) networks
and is lateralized. There is evidence that semantic priming underlies dopaminergic …

Background Previous research has yielded evidence for enhanced semantic priming in
formal thought-disordered schizophrenia patients, a result that fits well with the hypothesis of …

Introduction. Evidence is accumulating that suggests that semantic networks are abnormal in
schizophrenia. Methods. To investigate this further, we examined priming in 42 …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Semantic priming disturbances are increasingly
recognized as a feature of schizophrenia, and increased priming has been suggested to …

Background. A number of studies have suggested that indirect semantic priming is
enhanced in thought-disordered schizophrenics. However, research on direct semantic …

To investigate the effects of dopamine on the dynamics of semantic activation, 39 healthy
volunteers were randomly assigned to ingest either a placebo (n= 24) or a levodopa (n= 16) …