[Characteristics of the emotional memory of schizophrenic patients with defect traits]

A hypothesis postulating the nonuniform distortion of emotionality in schizophrenic patients was tested using a model of memorizing the positive and negative emotional stimuli. In schizophrenic patients with emotional impoverishment the ability to retrieve emotiogenic stimuli was reduced due to a lesser retrieval of positive emotional stimuli. The results are considered as being characteristic of schizophrenic patients with defect traits.