Picture sequencing by schizophrenic patients

Abstract

Cognitive sequencing by community-dwelling schizophrenic patients was studied using a new test of picture sequencing designed to minimize the influence of information-processing speed, visual perception and scanning, manual dexterity and motor speed, and knowledge of social conventions on test scores. Compared with age-and education-equated normal community controls, more than 50% of the schizophrenic patients exhibited deficits on the picture sequencing test.

Visual and linguistic narrative comprehension in autism spectrum disorders: Neural evidence for modality-independent impairments

“…For instance, impaired narrative comprehension may not be specific to the ASD condition but may be the result of more domain-general cognitive impairments. Impairments in visual narrative comprehension are also observed in other clinical populations (see Coderre, in preparation, for a review) such as individuals with specific language impairment SLI (Allen, Lincoln, & Kaufman, 1991;Nenadović, Stokić, Vuković, Đoković, & Subotić, 2014), right-hemisphere brain damage (Huber & Gleber, 1982), and schizophrenia (Beatty, Jocic, & Monson, 1993). We explored whether autism symptomology correlated with the ERP findings by running post-hoc correlations between the social + communication total on the ADOS and the N400/LPC effects (unrelated-related) in the three time windows of interest (300-500 ms, 500-800 ms, 800-1200 ms).…”

Dismantling the “Visual Ease Assumption:" A Review of Visual Narrative Processing in Clinical Populations

“…Just as the Visual Ease Assumption overlooks the complexity of domain‐general narrative processing, it also overlooks the complexity of the tasks used to assess narrative processing, which may elicit deficits independent of the presence of language. For instance, picture arrangement tasks, like those included in the Weschler scales, require additional skills like perceptual abilities (participants must be able to see the pictures), manual dexterity (participants must be able to manipulate the pictures to arrange them), the ability to process and interpret information rapidly and accurately (since the test scores are timed), and social understanding (since many of the sequences involve social interactions; Beatty et al, ). Picture arrangement tasks may therefore elicit poor performance in clinical populations for reasons unrelated to sequential processing deficits.…”

“…These three conditions were chosen because research and clinical work with these populations has reflected a relatively widespread adoption of visual narratives, under the guise of the Visual Ease Assumption. However, visual narrative processing has also been investigated in a handful of other conditions such as schizophrenia (Beatty et al, ; Zalla et al, ), Parkinson’s disease (Beatty & Monson, ; Tinaz, Schendan, & Stern, ), and ADHD (Segal et al, ). Future work should more rigorously test the Visual Ease Assumption in these populations, and others, before it can be assumed that visual narrative processing is “easier” than language processing.…”

Editors’ Introduction and Review: Visual Narrative Research: An Emerging Field in Cognitive Science

“…Another prevalent use of visual narratives comes in the Picture Arrangement Task (PAT), where participants arrange unordered images into a sequence, which is then scored against an expected, target sequence. The PAT has long been a key part of general intelligence (IQ) tests (WAIS‐IQ, WISC) and clinical assessments (Kaufman & Lichtenberger, ; Ramos & Die, ) like brain damage (Breiger, ; Huber & Gleber, ) and other clinical diagnoses (Beatty, Jocic, & Monson, ; Beatty & Monson, ). Nevertheless, questions persist about what these tasks index (Lipsitz, Dworkin, & Erlenmeyer‐Kimling, ; Ramos & Die, ; Tulsky & Price, ), perhaps because such studies never include measures of visual narrative reading experience , despite robust findings that PAT proficiency differs across age and experience with visual narratives (Fivush & Mandler, ; Friedman, ; Nakazawa, ; Weist et al, ).…”