Agency of Subjects and Eye Movements in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders

Autor/inn/en	Barattieri di San Pietro, Chiara; de Girolamo, Giovanni; Luzzatti, Claudio; Marelli, Marco
Titel	Agency of Subjects and Eye Movements in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders
Quelle	In: Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 51 (2022) 6, S.1371-1391 (21 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Barattieri di San Pietro, Chiara)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0090-6905
DOI	10.1007/s10936-022-09903-6
Schlagwörter	Eye Movements; Schizophrenia; Language Processing; Verbs; Grammar; Task Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Augenbewegung; Schizophrenie; Sprachverarbeitung; Grammatik; Aufgabenanalyse
Abstract	People with schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD) show anomalies in language processing with respect to "who is doing what" in an action. This linguistic behavior is suggestive of an atypical representation of the formal concepts of "Agent" in the lexical representation of a verb, i.e., its thematic grid. To test this hypothesis, we administered a silent-reading task with sentences including a semantic violation of the animacy trait of the grammatical subject to 30 people with SSD and 30 healthy control participants (HCs). When the anomalous grammatical subject was the Agent of the event, a significant increase of Gaze Duration was observed in HCs, but not in SSDs. Conversely, when the anomalous subject was a Theme, SSDs displayed an increased probability of go-back movements, unlike HCs. These results are suggestive of a higher tolerability for anomalous Agents in SSD compared to the normal population. The fact that SSD participants did not show a similar tolerability for anomalous Themes rules out the issue of an attention deficit. We suggest that general communication abilities in SSD might benefit from explicit training on deep linguistic structures. (As Provided).
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