Cognitive impairment associated with schizophrenia can lead to functional disability and
poor quality of life. Established cognitive remediation programs have variable results for …

Disturbed processing of emotional faces and voices is typically observed in schizophrenia.
This deficit leads to impaired social cognition and interactions. In this study, we investigated …

Background/objectives Previous studies have reported that people with schizophrenia have
impaired musical abilities. Here we developed a simple music-based assay to assess …

Background Cognitive deficits are one of the core features of major depressive disorder
(MDD) that play crucial role in functional recovery. Studies have explored cognitive deficits …

Different working memory (WM) mechanisms that underlie words, tones, and timbres have
been proposed in previous studies. In this regard, the present study developed a WM test …

Investigation of acquired amusia caused by brain damage suggested that cortical lesions of
the right hemisphere contributed to musical deficits. We previously reported reduced musical …

Congenital amusia, commonly known as tone deafness, is a lifelong impairment of music
perception and production. It remains a question of debate whether the impairments in …

Schizophrenia is a holergasia with unclear mechanism and high heterogeneity. Auditory
verbal hallucination (AVH) study might help in understanding schizophrenia from the …

Background Despite auditory cognition dysfunction being consistently found in people with
schizophrenia, the evidence from non-clinical individuals with schizotypy is rare and …

The purpose of this study was to examine the difference between adults with schizophrenia
and healthy adults in terms of emotion identification, and the perceived intensity of the …