Speech as a graph: developmental perspectives on the organization of spoken language

NB Mota, J Weissheimer, I Finger, M Ribeiro… - Biological Psychiatry …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Language has been used as a privileged window to investigate mental processes.
More recently, descriptions of psychopathological symptoms have been analyzed with the …

New strategies for the cognitive science of dreaming

R Mallett, KR Konkoly, T Nielsen, M Carr… - Trends in Cognitive …, 2024 - cell.com
Dreams have long captivated human curiosity, but empirical research in this area has faced
significant methodological challenges. Recent interdisciplinary advances have now opened …

Dreaming during the Covid-19 pandemic: Computational assessment of dream reports reveals mental suffering related to fear of contagion

NB Mota, J Weissheimer, M Ribeiro, M De Paiva… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The current global threat brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic has led to widespread social
isolation, posing new challenges in dealing with metal suffering related to social distancing …

Thought disorder measured as random speech structure classifies negative symptoms and schizophrenia diagnosis 6 months in advance

NB Mota, M Copelli, S Ribeiro - npj Schizophrenia, 2017 - nature.com
In chronic psychotic patients, word graph analysis shows potential as complementary
psychiatric assessment. This analysis relies mostly on connectedness, a structural feature of …

Natural Language Processing markers in first episode psychosis and people at clinical high-risk

SE Morgan, K Diederen, PE Vértes, SHY Ip… - Translational …, 2021 - nature.com
Recent work has suggested that disorganised speech might be a powerful predictor of later
psychotic illness in clinical high risk subjects. To that end, several automated measures to …

Lower speech connectedness linked to incidence of psychosis in people at clinical high risk

TJ Spencer, B Thompson, D Oliver, K Diederen… - Schizophrenia …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Formal thought disorder is a cardinal feature of psychotic disorders, and is also
evident in subtle forms before psychosis onset in individuals at clinical high-risk for …

Speech structure links the neural and socio-behavioural correlates of psychotic disorders

L Palaniyappan, NB Mota, S Oowise, V Balain… - Progress in Neuro …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background: A longstanding notion in the concept of psychosis is the prominence of
loosened associative links in thought processes. Assessment of such subtle aspects of …

Speaking your mind: Language and narrative in young children's theory of mind development

V Tompkins, MJ Farrar, DE Montgomery - Advances in child development …, 2019 - Elsevier
Research consistently finds that language and theory of mind are interrelated. The content
and qualities of language that specifically predict theory of mind remain under investigation …

Structural differences between REM and non-REM dream reports assessed by graph analysis

JM Martin, DW Andriano, NB Mota, SA Mota-Rolim… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Dream reports collected after rapid eye movement sleep (REM) awakenings are, on
average, longer, more vivid, bizarre, emotional and story-like compared to those collected …

A comprehensive review of computational methods for automatic prediction of schizophrenia with insight into indigenous populations

R Ratana, H Sharifzadeh, J Krishnan, S Pang - Frontiers in psychiatry, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Psychiatrists rely on language and speech behavior as one of the main clues in psychiatric
diagnosis. Descriptive psychopathology and phenomenology form the basis of a common …