The British Journal of Psychiatry 136: 53-58 (1980)
© 1980 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
Interhemispheric transfer of stereognostic information in chronic schizophrenics
SA Carr
Ten chronic schizophrenic in-patients and ten matched normal controls were
tested on a cross-hemispheric stereognostic task, using both meaningful
objects and non-meaningful shapes of wood, under four different retention
intervals. The main finding was that the schizophrenic group but not the
control group displayed deficits in intermanual transfer of tactual
material, as compared to the same task performed within hands. The
implications of this result are discussed in relation to the possibility
that some basic neurological disorder may accompany schizophrenia.