Emotional deficits are among the core features of schizophrenia and both associative
emotional learning and the related ability to verbalize emotions can be reduced. We …

BackgroundSeveral psychological and neurobiological models imply that patients with
schizophrenia (SCZ) are more inclined to utilize emotional cues as response determinants …

It is now well established that emotion enhances episodic memory. However, it remains
unclear whether the same neural processes underlie enhancement of memory for both …

We recently showed that, in healthy individuals, emotional expression influences memory for
faces both in terms of accuracy and, critically, in memory response bias (tendency to classify …

Objective: The present study explored the hypothesis that anhedonia reflects an emotional
memory impairment for pleasant stimuli, rather than diminished hedonic capacity in …

Objectives. Negative emotion exerts a considerable influence on cognitive processes. This
may have clinical implications in mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, where negative …

Numerous studies have shown dysfunctional mechanism of interaction between bottom-up
emotional and top-down cognitive processes in persons with schizophrenia (SCZ). During …

The ability to maintain information over short periods of time (ie, working memory) is critically
important in a variety of cognitive functions including language, planning, and decision …

Objective: Despite schizophrenia patients' reports of diminished experience of emotion in
interviews and self-report measures, their emotional experience in the presence of …

The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of emotion on the rate of forgetting by
long-hospitalized schizophrenics. Neutral, positive and negative emotion word lists were …