ERC_Cog PROMENADE - WP4: Physical and Mental Metaphors in schizophrenia

This repository contains the materials and data associated with the research article: Bischetti, L., Bambini, V., Agostoni, G., Bechi, M., Buonocore, M., Sapienza, J., Frau, F., Martinelli, G., Pompei, C., Scalingi, B., Spangaro, M., Martini, F., Cocchi, F., Cavallaro, R., & Bosia, M. (submitted to Schizophrenia Research: Cognition). The Physical and Mental Metaphors (PMM) task and its validation in schizophrenia: a tool for rapid assessment of figurative language comprehension, between pragmatics and symptoms. Please acknowledge and cite the dataset using the reference above. The available files are:- "PMM_items.csv", a structured file documenting all PMM items, including item identifiers, metaphor type (physical vs. mental), list (T0, T1, and T2), and psycholinguistic properties (familiarity, physicality and mentality scores);- "Supplementary Material", providing detailed descriptive statistics and psychometric evaluations of the Interpretation dimension, including mean scores, comparison between groups, internal consistency, and associations between metaphor sets and with Accuracy scores ;- "pmm_2025_data_suppl.csv", a structured file including the sum aggregated scores per participant in the PMM task. See the README file for detailed information.