ReviewFrontiers in psychology2018
Metaphor Comprehension in Schizophrenic Patients.
Review in Frontiers in psychology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06375902 (The Fragility of Metaphors), which is not on this map. Cited by 20 papers.
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The Fragility of Metaphors (FraMe): Learning, Loosing, and How to Train Them
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20 citing papers in PubMed.
- The Physical and Mental Metaphors (PMM) task and its validation in schizophrenia: A tool for rapid assessment of figurative language comprehension, between pragmatics and symptoms.Schizophrenia research. Cognition · 2026Article
- Increasing participation of people with thought disorder in clinical research.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2026Review
- Figurative Archive: an open dataset and web-based application for the study of metaphor.Scientific data · 2026Article
- Online Metaphor Comprehension in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders: An Eye Tracking Study.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Embodied Self and Metaphor Comprehension Predict Comprehension of Boundary Concept in Patients with Schizophrenia.Iranian journal of psychiatry · 2025Article
- Targeting the Roots of Psychosis: The Role of Aberrant Salience.Pediatric reports · 2025Review
- The modular mind and psychiatry: toward clinical integration with a focus on self-disorders.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Homogenization of word relationships in schizophrenia: Topological analysis of cortical semantic representations.Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2024Article
- Challenging large language models' "Heliyon · 2024Article
- On the specificity of figurative language comprehension impairment in schizophrenia and its relation to cognitive skills but not psychopathological symptoms - Study on metaphor, humor and irony.Schizophrenia research. Cognition · 2024Article
- Language and communication rehabilitation in patients with schizophrenia: A narrative review.Heliyon · 2024Review
- Linguistic findings in persons with schizophrenia-a review of the current literature.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
- Using the Structure of Evaluative Components as a basis for comparing the oral narratives of schizophrenics and healthy individuals.Journal of psycholinguistic research · 2022Article
- Altered Brain Criticality in Schizophrenia: New Insights From Magnetoencephalography.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2022Article
- Metaphor Comprehension in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Core Language Skills Matter.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2022Article
- Neural Basis of Speech-Gesture Mismatch Detection in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2021Article
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- A Multimodal Speech-Gesture Training Intervention for Patients With Schizophrenia and Its Neural Underpinnings - the Study Protocol of a Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
- Metaphor Processing Dysfunctions in Schizophrenia Patients With and Without Substance Use Disorders.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
- Social Cognition Analyzer Application-A New Method for the Analysis of Social Cognition in Patients Diagnosed With Schizophrenia.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Article
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Abstract
People with schizophrenia often exhibit difficulties to comprehend figurative expressions, such as irony, proverbs, metaphors and idioms, with a general proneness to neglect the figurative meaning and to accept the more literal one. This inability is usually referred to as concretism and it constitutes a clinical manifestation of the broader language dysfunction called Formal Thought Disorder. The current review focuses on the neuropsychological and neuroanatomical underpinnings of schizophrenics' misinterpretation of a subgroup of figurative expressions, i.e., metaphors. Metaphors are heterogeneous in nature, classifiable according to various criteria; for instance, metaphors can be conventional and familiar, or conversely, novel and unusual. These linguistic distinctions are substantial because the comprehension of the different types of metaphor entails partially different cognitive strategies and neural substrates. This review gathers studies that have directly investigated which neurocognitive deficits explain the inefficient comprehension of metaphor in schizophrenia. Several impairments have been put forward, such as general intelligence, executive functions and theory of mind deficits. Moreover, the neural correlates of metaphor comprehension in schizophrenia, like the left inferior/medial frontal gyrus and the temporal lobe, match those cortices affected by the neuropathology of schizophrenia. Even though the causal defective mechanism is still a matter of investigation, we provide an attempt to integrate existing findings.
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