Contextual impairments in schizophrenia and the FN400

Amoruso Amoruso

doi:10.3389/fnhum.2012.00191

Abstract

Contextual impairments in schizophrenia and the FN400

Highlights

Suggests that schizophrenia patients are less able to benefit from context and, social impairments are commonly observed in this complex disorder
Reviewed by: Walter Ritter, Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, USA Pierfilippo De Sanctis, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA
This resulted in three conditions: old, different, and new condition

Summary

Introduction

Suggests that schizophrenia patients are less able to benefit from context and, social impairments are commonly observed in this complex disorder. In classical explicit memory experiments, familiarity (the subjective experience of knowing an item – e.g., a face-without being able to retrieve any further episodic information) has been associated with a mid-frontal old/new difference occurring in the 300–500 ms window, often called “FN400” (Rugg and Curran, 2007).

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