Theory of mind and language comprehension in schizophrenia: Poor mindreading affects figurative language comprehension beyond intelligence deficits

2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
José M. Gavilán ◽  
José E. García-Albea
Keyword(s):  
Theory Of Mind ◽  
Language Comprehension ◽  
Figurative Language ◽  
Figurative Language Comprehension

scholarly journals Irony processing in Adolescents: an ERP study

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene Symeonidou ◽  
Iroise Dumontheil ◽  
Wing Yee Chow ◽  
Richard Breheny
Keyword(s):  
Theory Of Mind ◽  
Middle Childhood ◽  
Language Comprehension ◽  
Figurative Language ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Late Childhood ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
Figurative Language Comprehension ◽  
Two Age Groups

Irony comprehension requires complex inferences about a speaker’s mind. Behavioural data indicates that while children between ages 6-10 begin to show some appreciation of the communicative intent in an ironic remark, full appreciation of speaker attitude might be developing beyond middle childhood and into adolescence. Additionally, recent findings suggest that the online use of Theory of Mind (ToM) shows a prolonged development through late childhood and adolescence. We provide ERP evidence that suggests that the two age-groups process irony differently and engage different cognitive mechanisms. This is the first study to investigate figurative language comprehension in adolescents through ERPs.

A test of metaphoric comprehension and some preliminary developmental data

1979 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilyn R. Pollio ◽  
Howard R. Pollio
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
School Children ◽  
Language Comprehension ◽  
Elementary School Children ◽  
Figurative Language ◽  
Choice Test ◽  
Multiple Choice Test ◽  
Figures Of Speech ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Figurative Language Comprehension

ABSTRACTThe purposes of the present study was to develop a multiple-choice test of figurative language comprehension and to evaluate the development of such comprehension over a wide range of ages and children. To do this, samples of novel and frozen figures were selected from a corpus provided by elementary school children and then administered to 149 different children between 9 and 14 years. Results showed that the test produced was a reliable one, and one that produced meaningful developmental trends. In addition, differences were noted between the comprehension and production of novel and frozen figures of speech. These findings were discussed in terms of their methodological and developmental implications.

scholarly journals Figurative Language Comprehension in Schizophrenia and Its Neural Basis

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heben Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Ability ◽  
Brain Imaging ◽  
Language Comprehension ◽  
Figurative Language ◽  
Clinical Factors ◽  
Imaging Studies ◽  
Neural Basis ◽  
Behavioral Studies ◽  
Schizophrenic Patients ◽  
Figurative Language Comprehension

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.

scholarly journals On Intentionality and Figurative Language Comprehension

2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (2 (4)) ◽  
pp. 74-77
Author(s):  
Gohar Harutyunyan
Keyword(s):  
Language Comprehension ◽  
Figurative Language ◽  
Communicative Intent ◽  
Pragmatic Analysis ◽  
Figurative Language Comprehension

The communicative intent which is a linguo-philosophical notion is important from the perspective of pragmatic analysis. The article attempts to examine the complicated interconnection between the intention of communication and the perception of the figurative language. Special attention has been paid to metaphor and irony whose perception and interpretation heavily depend on the intention of communication.

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