Automated computerized analysis of speech in psychiatric disorders

AS Cohen, B Elvevåg - Current opinion in psychiatry, 2014 - journals.lww.com
Computer-based assessments of natural language afford a framework with which to
measure communication disturbances in adults with severe mental illnesses. Emerging …

Redefining the resolution of semantic knowledge in the brain: advances made by the introduction of models of semantics in neuroimaging

R Bruffaerts, S De Deyne, K Meersmans… - Neuroscience & …, 2019 - Elsevier
The boundaries of our understanding of conceptual representation in the brain have been
redrawn since the introduction of explicit models of semantics. These models are grounded …

Structure and flexibility: Investigating the relation between the structure of the mental lexicon, fluid intelligence, and creative achievement.

YN Kenett, RE Beaty, PJ Silvia, D Anaki… - … of Aesthetics, Creativity …, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
Creativity is mainly viewed by current theories as either a bottom-up or top-down cognitive
process. However, a growing body of research indicates that both processes contribute to …

Large-scale network representations of semantics in the mental lexicon

S De Deyne, YN Kenett, D Anaki… - Big data in cognitive …, 2016 - api.taylorfrancis.com
The mental lexicon contains the knowledge about words acquired over a lifetime. Acentral
question is how this knowledge is structured and changes over time. Here wepropose to …

SNAFU: The semantic network and fluency utility

JC Zemla, K Cao, KD Mueller, JL Austerweil - Behavior research methods, 2020 - Springer
The verbal fluency task—listing words from a category or words that begin with a specific
letter—is a common experimental paradigm that is used to diagnose memory impairments …

Category fluency, latent semantic analysis and schizophrenia: a candidate gene approach

KK Nicodemus, B Elvevåg, PW Foltz, M Rosenstein… - Cortex, 2014 - Elsevier
Background Category fluency is a widely used task that relies on multiple neurocognitive
processes and is a sensitive assay of cortical dysfunction, including in schizophrenia. The …

Semantic relations in a categorical verbal fluency test: an exploratory investigation in mild cognitive impairment

D Quaranta, C Piccininni, A Caprara… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Categorical verbal fluency tests (CFT) are commonly used to assess the integrity of semantic
memory in individuals with brain damage. Persons with Dementia of the Alzheimer's Type …

Rigidity, chaos and integration: hemispheric interaction and individual differences in metaphor comprehension

M Faust, YN Kenett - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Neurotypical individuals cope flexibly with the full range of semantic relations expressed in
human language, including metaphoric relations. This impressive semantic ability may be …

Characterizing cognitive performance in a large longitudinal study of aging with computerized semantic indices of verbal fluency

SVS Pakhomov, L Eberly, D Knopman - Neuropsychologia, 2016 - Elsevier
A computational approach for estimating several indices of performance on the animal
category verbal fluency task was validated, and examined in a large longitudinal study of …

The hyper-modular associative mind: a computational analysis of associative responses of persons with Asperger syndrome

YN Kenett, R Gold, M Faust - Language and Speech, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Rigidity of thought is considered a main characteristic of persons with Asperger syndrome
(AS). This rigidity may explain the poor comprehension of unusual semantic relations …