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Yi Wen1, Xueqing Nie1, Daxing Wu1
1Medical Psychological Institute, Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, 410011, China.
Abstract:
The current study explored the music perception ability of individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia and its relationship with other cognitive abilities and psychotic symptom severity. The persons with schizophrenia performed significantly worse than the control group on the Montreal Battery of Evaluation of Amusia (MBEA) (p<0.001). The music perception ability of persons with schizophrenia was related to other cognitive abilities (attention, verbal memory, spatial memory, and executive function) and the severity of psychotic symptoms.
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