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 the Accuracy dimension;- "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.