The study is being conducted by Dr Thomas Weickert, Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychiatry of the University of New South Wales, and Loretta Moore, a research assistant working at the Schizophrenia Research Laboratory at Neuroscience Research Australia.
This research study was designed to examine the way we learn how to organize visually based information in our brains and make judgments about that information. We hope to understand how people make judgements about newly learned, visually based information.
The purpose is to investigate whether people with schizophrenia display an impaired ability relative to healthy adults to learn and make judgments about newly learned, visually based information that they have organized in their brain and to determine the relationship of this ability to organize information to other thought processing abilities.
This study will be conducted over 3 to 4 days, and during that time you will undergo the following procedures:
• Brief screening questionnaire to determine your eligibility for the study
• Short, 4 subtest form of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-III
• Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-III Letter-Number Sequencing test
• Wechsler Test of Adult Reading
• Benton Line Orientation Test
• Positive and Negative Symptoms Scale
• Schizophrenia Personality Questionnaire
• Computerized perceptual category learning test
• Computerized perceptual recognition test
Your participation in this study may have associated expenses. Reimbursement will be provided for your time and for out-of-pocket expenses, such as travel to the centre.
If you have any questions, or if you are interested in participating please feel free to contact us. You may contact either:
Loretta Moore at 02 9399 1138, email: l.moore@neura.edu.au
or
Dr Thomas W. Weickert at 02 9399 1130, email: t.weickert@unsw.edu.au
Either will be more than willing to help you!
