For People With Schizophrenia, Working Memory Hinders Learning
Wednesday, October 8, 2014 - 08:50
in Psychology & Sociology
A new study has pinpointed working memory as a cause of learning difficulties in people with schizophrenia. Working memory is known to be affected in 1 percent of the population who have schizophrenia, but it has been unclear whether that has a specific role in making learning more difficult, said Brown University postdoctoral researcher Anne Collins, lead author of the paper in the Journal of Neuroscience. read more