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September 2022 Newsletter | Issue #3

By Paulina Dzialoszynski, Sabrina D. Ford and María F. Alonso

Next SpeechBank Site Discourse Meeting – November 15th, 2022

We have 14 sites (Canada, UK, Chile, Italy [3], Croatia, Spain, Brazil [3], India, Australia, Germany) contributing to data collection for the SpeechBank. We meet every 2 months to discuss progress across sites and exchange notes. If you are interested in joining this meeting, please contact Dr. Maria Alonso for the Zoom information and time.

Seminar Series 2022

We are continuing with the second edition of our seminar series from May to November 2022. This year, the talks are organized by Drs. Natalia Mota and Eric Tan. Here are some of the upcoming talks:

• September 30th, 2022 – 8:00-10:00am ET – “Grammar and cognition”, Wolfram Hinzen and Claudio Palominos

• October 21st, 2022 – 5:00-7:00pm ET – “Temporal measurement (EEG and fMRI)”, Megan Boudewyn and Philip Sumner

• November 4th, 2022 – 4:00-6:00pm ET – “Crosscultural communication and psychosis DLF workshop”, Iris Sommer

  Meetings will take place over Zoom at the following link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/84096990242

NEW FOR 2023: We are looking for volunteers to organize the Seminar Series 2023! This is an excellent opportunity especially for early career researchers to grow with the consortium. If you are interested, please contact Drs. Natalia Mota and Eric Tan.

Schizophrenia Bulletin Special Issue Update

We have some exciting works already accepted for the special issue. We list them with the first authors here.

• Claudio Palominos: Widening the temporal window: delays in coming back to previously referenced entities in psychotic speech.

• Caroline Nettekoven: Semantic speech networks linked to formal thought disorder in early psychosis.

• Roberto Limongi: Active inference, epistemic value, and uncertainty in conceptual disorganization in first episode schizophrenia.

• Sebastian Walther: Neural correlates of formal thought disorder dimensions in psychosis.

Congratulations to all authors. All papers for the special issue will be online once the full set is finalized.

Discourse Protocol

This protocol is intended for producing speech samples to be compiled into a multilingual, benchmark dataset for the purpose of studying language in psychosis. We currently have English, Spanish, German, French, Croatian and Portuguese versions of the task administration protocol.

We have now added protocol versions in Turkish and Hindi.

Please email Dr. Maria Alonso for the latest versions.

(Cross)linguistic Speech Patterns as Bio-Social Markers for Psychiatric Disorders Workshop – October 31 – November 4, 2022

An exciting multidisciplinary workshop is being organized at Leiden, the Netherlands by Dr. Iris Sommer, graduate researcher Mr. Hugo Corona Hernández and Dr. Lena Palaniyappan later this year. The last day of this workshop will include an open forum for all interested participants. This is open to all members of the DISCOURSE consortium – we are particularly interested in inviting early career researchers, trainees, and individuals and families with lived experience. Please feel free to pass the information on to anyone that may be interested.

Open live streaming details below

Activity: ‘Final reflections on the workshop. By Janna de Boer, Cheryl Corcoran, and Philipp Homan”

Link: https://universiteitleiden.zoom.us/j/66323926631?pwd=eEJ5L3VuQTRVNGs4QmkzaTBQTGQ5dz09

Meeting ID: 663 2392 6631

Password: Q!Tz!bs3

Time: 1300-1400hrs (CET: Central European Time)

Date: November 4th , 2022

For more details, please contact Hugo Corona Hernandez h.corona.hernandez@umcg.nl

Grant Updates

Congratulations to Dr. Sunny Tang the recipient of the NARSAD young investigator award for Capturing Clinical Trajectories in Schizophrenia with Speech Biomarkers. Part of this project will be completed using the DISCOURSE speech sampling protocol.

SIRS 2023 Toronto: Satellite Discourse Meeting

We are currently considering organizing an in-person program in Toronto during SIRS 2023. Stay tuned for more info.

Stay in touch via Twitter (@discourseinpsy) or Slack (discourseinpsychosis.slack.com)