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Federico Frau , Marta Bosia , Luca Bischetti , Gloria Cappelli , Antonio Carotenuto , Luca Diamanti , Sonia Montemurro , Giulia Agostoni , Margherita Bechi , Daniela D’Imperio , Sara Lago , Sabrina Noccetti , Nicoletta Simi , Mauro Ceroni , Rosa Iodice , Matteo Signorini , Giorgio Arcara , Valentina Bambini ·

YOU? · · 2024 · Open Access · · DOI: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/x34tv

Pragmatic impairments are largely documented, yet rarely considered in clinical practice, also due to a poor characterization of pragmatic profiles across conditions, as well as some overlap with theory of mind (ToM) in the conceptualization of pragmatics. Here we present the outcome of a 10-year program that started with creating a novel test, the Assessment of Pragmatic Abilities and Cognitive substrates (APACS), and evolved in using it – along with ToM assessment – in seven clinical groups (i.e., amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, multiple sclerosis, right-hemisphere stroke, Parkinson’s disease, traumatic brain injury, schizophrenia, and dyslexia). The multistudy cross-diagnostic analysis of 454 participants revealed that receptive pragmatic skills were impaired in all clinical groups compared to controls, with schizophrenia showing the most severely impaired profile, whereas expressive pragmatic skills were impaired in four neurological conditions (i.e., Parkinson’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, right-hemisphere stroke, and traumatic brain injury). The association with ToM was limited to receptive pragmatics and moderate in the whole sample. Overall, pragmatic impairment emerged as a diffuse feature of neurological and psychiatric illnesses, which contributes to defining complex socio-communicative phenotypes but cannot be equated to a social cognition deficit and should hence be the target of specific assessment and intervention.

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