April 2025 Discourse Satellite Meeting – Program

Welcome Remarks – SLIDES

Vijay Mittal (Chair, Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA) 

Oral Presentations from the Hosting Team

Molly Losh (Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA) – SLIDES not available

Matt Goldrick (Chair, Department of Linguistics, Psychology, Cognitive Science Program, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA) – SLIDES 

Luz Maria Alliende (Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA) – SLIDES

Lived Experience Panel

Vegas Hodgins (McGill University, Montreal, Canada) – SLIDES

Irnes Zeljkovic (London Health Sciences Centre, Ontario, Canada) – SLIDES

Chantal Murthy (SPIRIT Center, University of Washington, USA) – SLIDES

DISCOURSE – Poster Session  

A Brazilian Portuguese multimodal corpus of individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia – POSTER 

Bruno Neves Rati de Melo Rocha

DIALOG: Understanding Disorganisation: A Language-focused Global Initiative in Psychosis – POSTER 

Hsi (Tiana) Wei

Fine-tuning an Expert Annotator: Exploring the Psychiatric Diagnostic Capabilities of Large Language Models – POSTER 

Ryan Partlan

Evaluating Language Models and Preprocessing Strategies for Detecting Psychosis-Related Language Disturbances – POSTER

Amir H Nikzad

Disrupted Semantic Coherence in Schizotypy and Psychosis: Evidence from Predictive Language Processing and LLM-Based Semantic Similarity Analysis – POSTER

Franziska Knolle

Communicative-pragmatic impairment in schizophrenia: analyzing error patterns through Signal Detection Theory – POSTER

Alberto Parola

Productive Pragmatic Impairments in Psychosis and Mood Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis – POSTER

Fiona Meister

Speech-based Multimodal Assessment of Schizophrenia – POSTER

Gowtham Premananth

Impact of social anxiety on verbal communication in people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders – POSTER

Amélie M. Achim

Investigation of the Effect of Different Stimuli on the Production and Valence of Emotional Words in Patients with Schizophrenia – POSTER

Stefannye dos Santos

Links between emotional language and clinical features among individuals with psychotic disorders during psychiatric hospitalization – POSTER

Nancy Lundin

Relationship Between Disorganized Speech, Cognition and White Matter Microstructural Characteristics in the Schizo-bipolar Spectrum – POSTER

Burcu Verim

Neural Correlates of Conversational Turn-Taking in Clinical High Risk for Psychosis – POSTER

Claire Bertrand

Leaving the context behind: Neurochemical correlates of diminished sensitivity to linguistic context in psychosis – POSTER

Yingqi Laetitia Wang

Conceptual Disorganization Is Associated With Adverse Prognosis in Schizophrenia – POSTER

Aarush Mehta

Lessons From the Implementation of Clinical Speech-Based Diagnostic Support in Early Intervention for Psychosis Services – POSTER

Julianna Olah

Speech-Based Screening of Different Psychiatric Conditions – POSTER

Julianna Olah

Exploring the Intricacies of Linguistic Abilities in Spontaneous Speech Production Across Schizophrenia Spectrum, Bipolar and Major Depressive Disorders: A Network Analysis Approach – POSTER

Rieke Roxanne Mülfarth

Automated analysis of head movement in youth at clinical high-risk for psychosis during clinical interviews – POSTER

Juliette Lozano-Goupil

Temporal Stability of Semantic Predictions in Subclinical Autistic and Schizotypal Personality Traits – POSTER

Elisabeth Friederike Sterner

Working Groups Panel

Moderator: Lena Palaniyappan (Douglas Hospital Research Centre & McGill University, Montreal, Canada)

Clinical Harmonization – SLIDES 
Sunny Tang (Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Glen Oaks, USA) 

Computational Methods – SLIDES 
Alban Voppel (McGill University, Montreal, Canada) 

Industry Collaborations and Stakeholders – SLIDES 
Julianna Olah (King’s College London, UK) 

Mechanisms, Models, and Theory of Language – SLIDES 
Maria Alonso Sanchez (Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile) Gina Kuperberg (Tufts University, USA) 

Clinical Translation – SLIDES 
Susan Rossell (Swinburne University of Technology & St. Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia)   
Marta Bosia (Vita Salute University & IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy)

Oral Sessions – Part I 

Harmonizing FTD Rating Scales: A Factor Analysis Approach to Summary Measures – SLIDES

Frederike Stein (University of Marburg, Germany) 

The PANSS prediction project: cross-lingual prediction of PANSS scores from spontaneous speech (audio only) – SLIDES

Rui He (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain) 

Oral Sessions – Part II

GPT-3 reveals selective insensitivity to global vs. local linguistic context in speech produced by treatment-naïve patients with positive thought disorder – SLIDES

Gina Kuperberg (Tufts University, USA)

MEG in Psychosis: individual differences in neuronal oscillations underlying language disorganization and impoverishment – SLIDES

Hsi Tiana Wei (McGill University, Montreal, Canada)

Computational speech markers of negative symptoms show evidence of being robust to antipsychotic dose and extrapyramidal symptoms in schizophrenia – SLIDES

Michael Spilka (Cambridge Cognition, Ontario, Canada)

Closing Remarks – SLIDES

Lena Palaniyappan (Douglas Hospital Research Centre & McGill University, Montreal, Canada)