Agency of Subjects and Eye Movements in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders

• Published in: Journal of psycholinguistic research Vol. 51; no. 6; pp. 1371 - 1391
• Main Authors: Barattieri di San Pietro, Chiara, de Girolamo, Giovanni, Luzzatti, Claudio, Marelli, Marco
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.12.2022; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Animacy; Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; Behavioral Science and Psychology; Cognitive Psychology; Communicative competence; Eye Movements; Grammar; Grammatical subject; Language Processing; Psycholinguistics; Psychology; Schizophrenia; Semantics; Task Analysis; Verbs; Verb thematic roles; Eye movements; Language; Schizophrenia spectrum disorders

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 themati...