Journal Article

FZJ-2024-05468

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Lucarini, V. (Corresponding author) ; Grice, M. ; Wehrle, S. ; Cangemi, F. ; Giustozzi, F. ; Amorosi, S. ; Rasmi, F. ; Fascendini, N. ; Magnani, F. ; Marchesi, C. ; Scoriels, L. ; Vogeley, K.FZJ* ; Krebs, M.-O. ; Tonna, M.

2024
Elsevier Amsterdam

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Please use a persistent id in citations: doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2024.116102

Abstract: Individuals with schizophrenia generally show difficulties in interpersonal communication. Linguistic analyses shed new light on speech atypicalities in schizophrenia. However, very little is known about conversational interaction management by these individuals. Moreover, the relationship between linguistic features, psychopathology, and patients' subjectivity has received limited attention to date. We used a novel methodology to explore dyadic conversations involving 58 participants (29 individuals with schizophrenia and 29 control persons) and medical doctors. High-quality stereo recordings were obtained and used to quantify turn-taking patterns. We investigated psychopathological dimensions and subjective experiences using the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale for Schizophrenia (PANSS), the Examination of Anomalous Self Experience scale (EASE), the Autism Rating Scale (ARS) and the Abnormal Bodily Phenomena questionnaire (ABPq). Different turn-taking patterns of both patients and interviewers characterised conversations involving individuals with schizophrenia. We observed higher levels of overlap and mutual silence in dialogues with the patients compared to dialogues with control persons. Mutual silence was associated with negative symptom severity; no dialogical feature was correlated with anomalous subjective experiences. Our findings suggest that individuals with schizophrenia display peculiar turn-taking behaviour, thereby enhancing our understanding of interactional coordination in schizophrenia.Keywords: Dialogue; Dyadic communication interaction; Interpersonal coordination; Intersubjectivity; Psychosis; Self-disorders; Turn-timing.

Note: MG, KV, FC and SW were funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – Project-ID 281511265 – SFB 1252 Prominence in Language at the University of Cologne: “Individual behaviour in encoding and decoding prosodicprominence” (Principal Investigators: Martine Grice and Kai Vogeley).

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Contributing Institute(s):

1. Kognitive Neurowissenschaften (INM-3)

Research Program(s):

1. 5251 - Multilevel Brain Organization and Variability (POF4-525) (POF4-525)
2. DFG project 281511265 - SFB 1252: Prominenz in Sprache (281511265) (281511265)

Appears in the scientific report 2024

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