Tiziana Zalla, Michael Phipps, Jordan Grafman
Story processing in patients with damage to the prefrontal cortex
Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior
people schizophrenia spectrum disorders ssd show anomalies language processing respect action linguistic behavior suggestive atypical representation formal concepts agent lexical representation verb ie thematic grid test hypothesis administered silentreading task sentences including semantic violation animacy trait grammatical subject 30 people ssd 30 healthy control participants hcs anomalous grammatical subject agent event significant increase gaze duration observed hcs ssds conversely anomalous subject theme ssds displayed increased probability goback movements unlike hcs results suggestive higher tolerability anomalous agents ssd compared normal population fact ssd participants show similar tolerability anomalous themes rules issue attention deficit suggest general communication abilities ssd might benefit explicit training deep linguistic structures