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Pablo J Ocampo¹, Nicolás Vassolo¹, Bautista Elizalde Acevedo²

¹Facultad de Ciencias Biomédicas, Universidad Austral, Pilar, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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|November 1, 2025

Summary

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This study developed a new sarcasm recognition task for Spanish-speakers to assess pragmatic language skills in healthy adults. The validated tool is reliable and effective for measuring social cognition.

Keywords:

Mentalization Pragmatic language Sarcasm Social cognition Task validation

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Area of Science:

Psycholinguistics
Neuroscience
Cognitive Psychology

Background:

Pragmatic language, including non-literal expressions, is vital for social cognition.
Existing assessment tools for pragmatic language are insufficient for neurotypical populations.
Sarcasm recognition is a key component of understanding non-literal language.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and validate a novel sarcasm recognition task for Spanish-speaking healthy adults.
To ensure the task is reliable, robust, and culturally relevant.
To provide a tool for assessing pragmatic language deficits and for use in neuroimaging studies.

Main Methods:

Experiment 1: Stimulus selection and reliability testing of 40 vignettes (sarcastic/literal) with 49 participants.
Experiment 2: Validation of the 40-item task using Cronbach's alpha and correlation with established social cognition tests in 35 participants.
Utilized psychometric analysis, including Cronbach's alpha and correlation indices.

Main Results:

Experiment 1 yielded 40 reliable stimuli with high reliability (Cronbach's Alpha: 0.818).
The final 40-item task demonstrated significant correlations with gold-standard social cognition tests in Experiment 2.
The task showed no ceiling effects in the neurotypical sample.

Conclusions:

The developed sarcasm recognition task is a brief, reliable, and robust measure of pragmatic language.
This validated tool is suitable for assessing social cognition in Spanish-speaking neurotypical adults.
The task's design facilitates parallel evaluation with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).