Letter to the Editor: A reply to Dr Corcoran

On the specificity of figurative language comprehension impairment in schizophrenia and its relation to cognitive skills but not psychopathological symptoms - Study on metaphor, humor and irony

“…However, it should be pointed out that despite global disruptions of pragmatic speech comprehension found in a tested population of the clinical sample, some of the schizophrenia individuals presented seemingly intact pragmatic speech skills (i.e., number of erroneous answers at the level of CON mean). This indicates that such characteristics are related to individual differences, such as good cognitive skills (ACE-III), social functioning (outpatients vs inpatients), and/or work status, as can be concluded from previous literature ( Adamczyk et al, 2016 ; Kosmidis et al, 2008 ; Lee et al, 2009 , Lee et al, 2020 ; San et al, 2007 ; Polimeni et al, 2010 ; Tsoi et al, 2008 ). Therefore, such phenomena warrant further research aimed at those individual differences.…”