Recently published research on the neuropsychology of patients with schizophrenia has improved our understanding of their memory, attention and executive function deficits, as well as possible ways to remediate those deficits.We have also seen a shift towards symptom-specific neuropsychological research to account for the heterogeneity of schizophrenia. Throughout this review we will comment on progress in the development of neuroanatomical models which account for neuropsychological deficits in schizophrenia.