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BRITISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY
Volume 189, Issue -, Pages 180-181Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.105.009332
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Fifteen patients with prominent positive symptoms of schizophrenia and 15 normal controls performed verbal prosodic and pure musical discrimination tasks, with changes in pitch and timing parameters. The patients' performance was comparable to that of controls on the discrimination of terminal pitch changes, but significantly poorer on the more difficult internal pitch discrimination. The latter deficit was positively correlated with the severity of their positive symptoms. The results suggest that patients have a deficit in processing fundamental aspects of prosody, which is associated with the presence of positive symptoms.
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