Language Dysfunction in Schizophrenia: Assessing Neural Tracking to Characterize the Underlying Disorder(s)?

Deficits in language production and comprehension are characteristic of schizophrenia. To date, it remains unclear whether these deficits arise from dysfunctional linguistic knowledge, or predictions derived the context. Alternatively, could be a result neural tracking auditory information resulting decreased fidelity even distorted information. Here, we discuss possible ways for clinical neuroscientists to employ methodology independently characterize deficiencies on auditory–sensory abstract levels. This might lead mechanistic understanding underlying related disorder(s) We propose combine naturalistic stimulation, measures speech–brain synchronization, computational modeling knowledge predictions. These independent but likely interacting assessments may exploited an objective differential diagnosis schizophrenia, as well better disorder functional level—illustrating potential translational tool range psychotic populations.