Using Multidimensional Scaling and Cluster Analysis for Understanding Information Processing and Schizophrenia.(Statistical Data Included) From: Genetic, Social, and General Psychology Monographs | Date: August 1, 1999| Author: CATALANO, JAMES A. | COPYRIGHT 1999 Heldref Publications. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

MASSARO AND COWAN (1993) summarized the defining concern of the theory of information processing as that of tracing the progression of information through a system from the initial stimulus up to and including the final response. The utility of information processing theory for an understanding of schizophrenia becomes obvious from Yank, Bentley, and Hargrove's (1993) definition of schizophrenia as

   a brain disorder in which marked alterations in brain activity, chemist...

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