The Comprehension of Familiar and Novel Metaphoric Meanings in Schizophrenia: A Pilot Study
Miscomprehension of nonliteral (“figurative”) language like metaphors, proverbs, idioms, and ironic expressions by patients with schizophrenia is a phenomenon mentioned already in historical psychiatric descriptions. However, it was only recently that studies did differentiate between novel and conv...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2018-01-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02251/full |