Department of Psychology, Tufts University, Medford, MA, United States of America.
Department of Psychology, Tufts University, Medford, MA, United States of America.
Schizophr Res. 2022 May;243:138-146. doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2022.02.032. Epub 2022 Mar 12.
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.
在患有精神分裂症和相关障碍的人群中，沟通和社交功能的障碍会对社交互动和生活质量产生负面影响。在本研究中，我们调查了语言交流特定方面的认知基础——词汇对齐，在精神分裂症和双相障碍患者中。在与实验者玩合作图片命名游戏时，我们探究了词汇对齐，在这个游戏中，两名玩家轮流命名一个双名图片（例如，兔子/野兔），并听他们的伙伴命名一个图片。我们在所有三组人群中都发现了词汇对齐的证据，患者组与对照组之间没有差异。我们认为，患者的这些典型词汇对齐模式是由保存下来的——在某些情况下甚至增加了——自下而上的机制支持的，这些机制平衡了自上而下的观点采择障碍。
