Quantifying incoherence in speech: An automated methodology and novel application to schizophrenia

Schizophrenia Research

Volumn 93, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 304-316

  Elvevåg, Brita ^a   Foltz, Peter W ^b   Weinberger, Daniel R ^a   Goldberg, Terry E ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Language; Psychosis; Semantic; Thought disorder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCORING SYSTEM; SEMANTICS; SPEECH DISORDER; TASK PERFORMANCE; THOUGHT DISORDER;

ADULT; COMMUNICATION; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC LANGUAGE; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SEMANTICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; THINKING;

EID: 34249326562     PISSN: 09209964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2007.03.001     Document Type: Article

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