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Cognitive sequencing by community-dwelling schizophrenic patients was studied using a new test of picture sequencing designed to minimize the influence of information-processing speed, visual perception and scanning, manual dexterity and motor speed, and knowledge of social conventions on test scores. Compared with age- and education-equated normal community controls, more than 50% of the schizophrenic patients exhibited deficits on the picture sequencing test.
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Beatty, W.W., Jocic, Z. & Monson, N. Picture sequencing by schizophrenic patients. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 31, 265–267 (1993). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03334924
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