Abstract Language deviations are a core symptom of schizophrenia. With the advances in
computational linguistics, language can be easily assessed in exact and reproducible …

Abstract Language disturbances are key aberrations in schizophrenia. Little is known about
the influence of antipsychotic medication on these symptoms. Using computational …

Background Clinicians routinely use impressions of speech as an element of mental status
examination. In schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, descriptions of speech are used to assess …

BackgroundStudies investigating the underlying mechanisms of hallucinations in patients
with schizophrenia suggest that an imbalance in top-down expectations v. bottom-up …

Introduction Negative content of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) is a strong predictor of
distress and impairment. This paper quantifies emotional voice-content in order to explore …

Schizophrenia-spectrum disorders (SSD) are highly heterogeneous in risk factors, symptom
characteristics, and disease course outcome. Although speech anomalies have long been …

Traditionally, computation-the rule-driven manipulation of symbols-as opposed to (lexical)
storage, has been the main focus of research in the language faculty. There is, however, …

Background Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) in psychotic patients are associated with
activation of right hemisphere language areas, although this hemisphere is non-dominant in …

Developmental dyslexia is commonly believed to result from a deficiency in the recognition
and processing of speech sounds. According to the cerebellar deficit hypothesis, this …

There is a somewhat peculiar difference between the approaches to language behavior of
psycholinguists who deal with adults and psycholinguists who deal with children. The …