Consciousness, Information Processing and Schizophrenia
British Journal of Psychiatry March 1, 1979 C. D. Frith
SummaryThe symptoms of schizophrenia can be interpreted as the result of a defect in the mechanism that controls and limits the contents of consciousness. This defect can be understood as excessive self-awareness. Normally most of the complex information processing which is continuously required by even simple acts of perception, language and thought goes on below the level of awareness;...