A study of association in insanity.

Kent, Grace H.; Rosanoff, A. J.

doi:10.1037/13767-000

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“…Studies of the semantic network in schizophrenia go back at least to Kent and Rosanoff (1910). According to a comprehensive review by Minzenberg et al (2002), in schizophrenia, experimental results involving automatic responses are quite variable; some show priming to be impaired, and some, especially in mania-like states, show it to be enhanced.…”

Section: The Lexicon As a Semantic Networkmentioning

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Schizophrenia and the structure of language: The linguist's view

Covington

Brown

et al. 2005

Schizophrenia Research

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Patients with schizophrenia often display unusual language impairments. This is a wide ranging critical review of the literature on language in schizophrenia since the 19th century. We survey schizophrenic language level by level, from phonetics through phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.There are at least two kinds of impairment (perhaps not fully distinct): thought disorder, or failure to maintain a discourse plan, and schizophasia, comprising various dysphasia-like impairments such as clanging, neologism, and unintelligible utterances.Thought disorder appears to be primarily a disruption of executive function and pragmatics, perhaps with impairment of the syntax-semantics interface; schizophasia involves disruption at other levels. Phonetics is also often abnormal (manifesting as flat intonation or unusual voice quality), but phonological structure, morphology, and syntax are normal or nearly so (some syntactic impairments have been demonstrated). Access to the lexicon is clearly impaired, manifesting as stilted speech, word approximation, and neologism. Clanging (glossomania) is straightforwardly explainable as distraction by self-monitoring.Recent research has begun to relate schizophrenia, which is partly genetic, to the genetic endowment that makes human language possible. D

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Section: The Lexicon As a Semantic Networkmentioning

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Schizophrenia and the structure of language: The linguist's view

Covington

Brown

et al. 2005

Schizophrenia Research

309

223

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“…Word associates That words are associatively linked to each other to varying degrees is a very old idea in psychology (Karwoski & Schacter, 1948;Kent & Rosanoff, 1910;Woodworth, 1938). In one form of the word association task, people are asked to respond with the first word that comes to mind when they hear or read a stimulus word.…”

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Five down, Absquatulated: Crossword puzzle clues to how the mind works

Nickerson

2011

Psychon Bull Rev

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Doing crossword puzzles is a popular pastime; no one knows how many people do them, but estimates go as high as 50 million or more in the United States alone. Success at crossword puzzles taxes several aspects of memory and cognition. The purpose of this article is to consider hints that crosswords provide and questions that they prompt regarding how the mind works. Implicated topics include word associations, lexical memory search, semantic priming, the sparseness of word space, list generation, the feeling of knowing and of not knowing, mental aging, and the crossword puzzle as a vehicle for studying cognition.

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“…Kent and Rosanoff (1910) chose 100 common nouns and adjectives and presented them to 1,000 subjects to obtain baseline data for normal subjects to serve as a comparison for ascertaining abnormal association patterns. These norms, updated by Jenkins and his colleagues, are still used by researchers.…”

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