Visuo-perceptual organization and working memory in patients with schizophrenia

▶ Controls benefit from automatic grouping when memorizing pairs of items. ▶ Schizophrenic patients benefit from this grouping in perception but not in memory. ▶ This benefit is even reversed in memory after incentive to re-group items. ▶ This occurs despite continuing focalization on automatically grouped items. ▶ It is as if new links must be integrated with existing representations.