Browsing Research publications by Author "Laws, K.R."
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Attention and executive function in people with schizophrenia: Relationship with social skills and quality of life
Tyson, P. J.; Laws, K.R.; Flowers, K.A.; Mortimer, A.M.; Schulz, J. (2008)Executive function and attention are highly complex cognitive constructs that typically reveal evidence of impairment in people with schizophrenia. Studies in this area have traditionally utilised abstract tests of cognitive ... -
An attenuation of the 'normal' category effect in patients with Alzheimer's disease : A review and bootstrap analysis
Moreno-Martinez, F.J.; Laws, K.R. (2007)There is a consensus that Alzheimer’s disease (AD) impairs semantic information, with one of the first markers being anomia i.e. an impaired ability to name items. Doubts remain, however, about whether this naming impairment ... -
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McKenna, P. J.; Laws, K.R.; Jauhar, S. (2015-09) -
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McKenna, P. J.; Radua, J.; Laws, K.R.; Jauhar, S. (2014-08) -
Awareness of everyday executive difficulties precede overt executive dysfunction in schizotypal subjects
Laws, K.R.; Patel, D.D.; Tyson, P. J. (2008)Much evidence indicates that schizophrenic patients exhibit deficits on tests of executive functioning. It is therefore hypo- 10 thesized that individuals with high schizotypal personality traits that may have a predisposition ... -
Basic-level visual similarity and category specificity
Gale, T.M.; Laws, K.R.; Frank, R.; Leeson, V.C. (2003)The role of visual crowding in category deficits has been widely discussed (e.g., [Humphreys et al., 1988]; [Laws and Gale, 2002]; [Tranel et al., 1997]). Most studies have measured overlap at the superordinate level ... -
Categories, Controls and Ceilings
Laws, K.R. (2005)In the target paper, I outlined several methodological issues associated with attempts to document category specific deficits; and a potential solution based around certain minimal criteria. The main argument being that ... -
Category deficits and paradoxical dissociations in Alzheimer's disease and Herpes Simplex Encephalitis
Laws, K.R.; Sartori, G. (2005)Most studies examining category specificity are single-case studies of patients with living or nonliving deficits. Nevertheless, no explicit or agreed criteria exist for establishing category-specific deficits in single ... -
Category specific naming the visual properties of line drawn stimuli
Gale, T.M.; Laws, K.R. (2002)It has been argued that greater intra-category structural similarity for living things may make them more difficult to recognize and name (e.g. Humphreys et al., 1988). Nevertheless, the precise meaning and quantification ... -
Category-specific semantics in Alzheimer's dementia and normal aging?
Laws, K.R.; Gale, T.M.; Adlington, R.L.; Irvine, K.; Sthanakiya, S.; Moreno-Martínez, F.J. (2011)Category-specific deficits represent the archetypal illustration of domain-specific cognitive processes. These deficits describe individuals who, following certain types of neurological damage show dissociations in their ... -
Category-specificity can emerge from bottom-up visual characteristics: evidence from a modular neural network
Gale, T.M.; Laws, K.R. (2006)The role of bottom-up visual processes in category-speciWc object recognition has been largely unexplored. We examined the role of low-level visual characteristics in category speciWc recognition using a modular neural ... -
CBT for psychosis : Not a 'quasi-neuroleptic': Authors' reply
McKenna, P. J.; Radua, J.; Jauhar, S.; Laws, K.R. (2014-06-01) -
Cognitive behavioural therapy for major psychiatric disorder : does it really work? A meta-analytical review of well-controlled trials
Lynch, D.; Laws, K.R.; McKenna, P. J. (2010)Background Although cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is claimed to be effective in schizophrenia, major depression and bipolar disorder, there have been negative findings in well-conducted studies and meta-analyses have ... -
Cognitive function and social abilities in patients with schizophrenia: relationship with atypical antipsychotics
Tyson, P. J.; Laws, K.R.; Flowers, K.A.; Tyson, A. G.; Mortimer, A.M. (2006)Although atypical antipsychotics have been associated with improvements in cognitive function in schizophrenia, the neurochemical basis for such effects is not well understood. Candidate neurotransmitter systems primarily ... -
Cognitive therapy for patients with schizophrenia
Laws, K.R.; McKenna, Peter (2014-08-02) -
Cognitive-behavioural therapy for the symptoms of schizophrenia : systematic review and meta-analysis with examination of potential bias
Jauhar, S.; McKenna, P. J.; Radua, J.; Fung, E.; Salvador, R.; Laws, K.R. (2014-01-31)BACKGROUND: Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) is considered to be effective for the symptoms of schizophrenia. However, this view is based mainly on meta-analysis, whose findings can be influenced by failure to consider ... -
Crowded and sparse domains in object recognition: consequences for categorisation and naming
Gale, T.M.; Laws, K.R.; Foley, K. (2006)Some models of object recognition propose that items from structurally crowded categories (e.g., living things) permit faster access to superordinate semantic information than structurally dissimilar categories (e.g., ... -
Delusion-prone individuals : stuck in their ways?
Laws, K.R.; Kondel, Tejinder; Clarke, R.; Nillo, A-M. (2011)Although false memories and confabulation have been linked to both executive dysfunction and greater suggestibility, similar associations with the emergence of delusional thinking remain unexamined. We therefore compared ... -
A domain specific deficit for foodstuffs in patients with Alzheimer's disease
Laws, K.R.; Leeson, V.C.; Gale, T.M. (2002)Although some studies have reported a category specific naming deficit in Alzheimer’s patients (invariably for living things), others have failed to replicate this finding (Laws et al., in press). Inconsistencies may partly ... -
Domain-specific deficits in schizophrenia
Laws, K.R.; Leeson, V.C.; McKenna, P. J. (2006)Introduction. Object recognition deficits are well documented in certain neurological disorders (e.g., Alzheimer's disease, herpes simplex encephalitis). Although agnosic problems have been documented in some patients with ...