Impaired context processing during irony comprehension in schizotypy: An ERPs study

Goleto, Sarah Del; Kostova, Milena; Blanchet, Alain

doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2016.04.009

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“…Meanwhile, they also found schizotypal personality might be a mediator variable in SPs' figurative language comprehension, since SPQ seemed to be in relation to both irony and proverb comprehension. The result does not consist with previous studies, because some researchers found high SPQ participants showed no semantic N400 effect and pragmatic P600 effect, while other researchers have no similar finding (Goleto, Kostova, & Blanchet, 2016;Humphrey, Bryson, & Grimshaw, 2010;Jahshan & Sergi, 2007).…”

Section: Ironycontrasting

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Figurative Language Comprehension in Schizophrenia and Its Neural Basis

Cheng¹

2019

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Schizophrenia is a kind of serious mental disease, which may cause major impairment in patients’ social-cognitive ability. It has been found that pragmatic ability in schizophrenic patients is often impaired, especially for figurative language comprehension. Figurative language refers to irony, metaphor, idiom and the like. People with schizophrenia tend to interpret figurative language as its literal meaning, which is called schizophrenic concretism. By reviewing extant literature, we found that the literature concerning this topic mainly consists of two parts: behavioral studies and brain-imaging studies. The behavioral studies mainly explore how clinical factors and cognitive ability have an impact on figurative language comprehension. Brain-imaging studies mainly discuss hemisphere lateralization in schizophrenia and whether theory of mind network in schizophrenic patients is different from that of normal groups. We conclude that future research should further explore the relationship among figurative language comprehension, cognitive ability and clinical factors, and also reveal related neural mechanism.

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Section: Ironycontrasting

confidence: 95%

Figurative Language Comprehension in Schizophrenia and Its Neural Basis

Cheng¹

2019

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“…In our study, the electrophysiological difficulties appear to be compensated later, as reflected by normal behavioral performance in the high-SPQ group. Only a few studies to date have investigated cerebral activity involved in ToM processes in schizotypy, but all of these revealed that participants with high schizotypal traits have effective compensation capabilities that can be used not only in the context of preventive interventions but also in cognitive remediation for patients (Del Goleto et al, 2016; Rapp et al, 2010; Y. Wang et al, 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

N400 Peculiarities During Intentional Inferences Production in Subjects With Schizotypal Traits

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Loye

Baltazar

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Journal of Psychophysiology

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Abstract. A deficit in context processing may underlie theory of mind (ToM) difficulties in schizophrenia, although few studies to date have explored the impact of contextual processing on ToM performances within the same task. We used electroencephalography to investigate the production of intentional inferences from highly versus weakly structured sentences in healthy participants with schizotypal traits. Thirty-four participants were divided into two groups according to their scores on the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire (SPQ). The participants listened to stories that required a degree of understanding in order to produce an inference about the main character’s intention. Each story was followed by a target word that could either be highly predictable (HP), weakly predictable (WP), or incompatible with the context. The results indicate that the N400 component for WP targets was stronger in the high-SPQ group. This increase correlated with the negative dimension of schizotypy. This may reflect difficulties with generating intentional inferences when the context is insufficiently structured for high schizotypy participants.

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“…Other evidence comes from studies on irony and the P600. Del Goleto et al [158] found differences between two groups of participants with high or low schizotypy p r e -p r i n t (i.e. schizophrenia-like personality traits), reporting that only the low schizotypal group showed the P600 effect to irony.…”

Section: Erp Responses Related To Pragmatics In Clinical Conditionsmentioning

confidence: 99%