We both say tomato: Intact lexical alignment in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

In people with schizophrenia and related disorders, impairments in communication and social functioning can negatively impact social interactions and quality of life. In the present study, we investigated the cognitive basis of a specific aspect of linguistic communication—lexical alignment—in peopl...

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Published inSchizophrenia research Vol. 243; pp. 138 - 146
Main Authors Sharpe, Victoria, Schoot, Lotte, Lewandowski, Kathryn Eve, Öngür, Dost, Türközer, Halide Bilge, Hasoğlu, Tuna, Kuperberg, Gina R.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Netherlands Elsevier B.V 01.05.2022
Subjects
Animals
Bipolar Disorder
Communication
Humans
Language production
Lexical priming
Linguistic alignment
Mentalizing
Psychiatric/Mental Health
Psychosis
Quality of Life
Rabbits
Schizophrenia - complications
Social cognition
Solanum lycopersicum
Psychosis
Linguistic alignment
Lexical priming
Language production
Mentalizing
Social cognition
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Summary:In people with schizophrenia and related disorders, impairments in communication and social functioning can negatively impact social interactions and quality of life. In the present study, we investigated the cognitive basis of a specific aspect of linguistic communication—lexical alignment—in people with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. We probed lexical alignment as participants played a collaborative picture-naming game with the experimenter, in which the two players alternated between naming a dual-name picture (e.g., rabbit/bunny) and listening to their partner name a picture. We found evidence of lexical alignment in all three groups, with no differences between the patient groups and the controls. We argue that these typical patterns of lexical alignment in patients were supported by preserved—and in some cases increased—bottom-up mechanisms, which balanced out impairments in top-down perspective-taking.
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LS designed the study with input from GRK, DO, and KEL. LS and VS managed data collection and data scoring/processing. TH and HBT conducted clinical assessments. VS conducted statistical analyses. VS and GK wrote the first draft of the manuscript. All authors have approved the final manuscript.
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ISSN:0920-9964
1573-2509
1573-2509
DOI:10.1016/j.schres.2022.02.032