Processing of linguistic deixis in people with schizophrenia, with and without auditory verbal hallucinations.

ABSTRACT: Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) are a key symptom of schizophrenia (SZ) defined by anomalous perception of speech. Anomalies of processing external speech stimuli have also been reported in people with AVH, but it is unexplored which specific dimensions of language are processed differently. Using a speech perception task (passive listening), we here targeted the processing of deixis, a key dimension of language governing the contextual anchoring of speech in interpersonal context. We designed naturalistic speech stimuli that were either non-personal and fact-reporting ('low-deixis' condition), or else involved rich deictic devices such as the grammatical first and second persons, direct questions, and vocatives ('high-deixis'). We asked whether neural correlates of deixis obtained wi

SUBMITTER: Fuentes-Claramonte P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9059152 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature