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Segmentalized consciousness in schizophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Andrew Crider
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Williams College, Williamstown, MA 01267acrider@williams.edu

Abstract

Segmentalized consciousness in schizophrenia reflects a loss of the normal Gestalt organization and contextualization of perception. Grays model explains such segmentalization in terms of septohippocampal dysfunction, which is consistent with known neuropsychological impairment in schizophrenia. However, other considerations suggest that everyday perception and its failure in schizophrenia also involve prefrontal executive mechanisms, which are only minimally elaborated by Gray.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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