INTRODUCTION: @entity73 of willed actions and routine behaviours are the subject of many studies into @entity161 . These impairments in generating and controlling goal-directed behaviours are reported in studies showing the effect of cueing in cognitive or motor tasks in @entity1 with @entity161 . The aim of this study was to assess the performance of @entity1 with @entity161 in a cued fluency protocol reworked to fit the concept of goal-directed behaviour. The extent to which results could be better explained by goal-directed generation issues, according to a symptomatic framework, than by semantic retrieval or semantic processing impairments, was also investigated. METHODS: We compared the performance of 43 individuals with @entity161 to a control group of 26 @entity1 . @entity1 were assessed with neuropsychological tests. The dominance of positive and negative symptoms, and apathetic profile, were also evaluated. All @entity1 completed a cued fluency protocol. RESULTS: Despite a significant improvement, not all @entity1 with @entity161 exhibited equal cueing benefits. The @entity1 with negative symptom dominance appeared to benefit more from cueing, even though their baseline performance was lower. CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that, in addition to semantic @entity2414 , some cognitive tasks may be more broadly influenced by difficulties in generating goal-directed behaviours.

Cued fluency protocol reveals dynamic symptomatic-dependent processes of goal-directed behaviours in XXXX .

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['participants', 'Participants', 'people'] @entity73 :: ('MESH:D003072', 'Disease') :: ['Differential impairments'] @entity2414 :: ('MESH:D008569', 'Disease') :: ['memory impairments'] @entity161 :: ('MESH:D012559', 'Disease') :: ['schizophrenia']
@entity161 :: (MESH:D012559,Disease) :: ['schizophrenia']
