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DISCOURSE organizes periodic learning events "Seminars". These are open to all registered members

DISCOURSE Inaugural Seminars started in 2021 as a series of webinars open to all registered members. These are virtual (Zoom) events, led by speaker and a moderator. These seminars provide the key discussion events that influence the developing agenda of DISCOURSE research. Please subscribe to our email network for up-to-date communication related to the Discourse seminars and quarterly newsletters here https://uwo.us8.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=bbec40ceca2f896823c030338&id=bd4a3380dd . Join our growing Discourse community and become a member here on the How to Join? page.

These are free-to-register events with no capacity restriction but we encourage all attendees to register as members of DISCOURSE to be on the mailing list.

DISCOURSE SEMINARS 2026

Join all seminar dates via zoom ID: 4198495066 link: https://reuna.zoom.us/j/4198495066

Distinct Cognitive Modes Detectable by fMRI for Inner Speech, Mind Wandering, Speech Perception, Linguistic Processing, and Auditory Attention for Response (January 23, 2026)

Speaker: Todd S. Woodward

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DISCOURSE SEMINARS 2025

Speaker: Franziska Knolle

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Theory-driven analysis of natural language processing measures of thought disorder using generative language modeling (November 28, 2025)

Speaker: Isaac Fradkin

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Aberrant semantic categorisation and loss of syntactic facilitation effect on working memory in psychosis (October 24, 2025)

Speaker: Eric YH Chen

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Telling the whole story: Insights from naturalistic language research across populations (October 10, 2025)

Speaker: Anthony Yacovone

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Charting trajectories of human thought using large language models (September 26, 2025)

Speaker: Matthew Nour

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DISCOURSE SEMINARS 2024

Turn-taking, prosodic and voice quality cues in relationship with psychopathology in individuals with schizophrenia: a combined acoustic and phenomenological analysis - Leveraging Speech and Language Features for the Automatic Detection of Schizophrenia and Its Symptoms (March 7, 2025)

Speakers: Valeria Lucarini & Silvia Ciampelli

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Speech in clinical high-risk individuals recruited through population screening in the ENTER study (February 18, 2025)

Speaker: Thomas Spencer, Kelly Diederen, Phoebe Wallman & Xinyi Liang

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Naturalistic approaches to assessing spoken language function and disfunction (December 13, 2024)

Speaker: Elnat Liebenthal

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Specificity of thought, language and communication disturbances to schizophrenia-spectrum disorders: Comparison with bipolar and neurodevelopmental disorders with computational methods (October 15, 2024)

Speaker: Emre Bora

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Using the referential communication paradigm to study language production in schizophrenia during a joint task performed with an interaction partner (September 20, 2024)

Speaker: Amélie Achim

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DISCOURSE SEMINARS 2023

NLP markers for psychosis and other psychiatric disorders: from a cross-linguistic research agenda to multiregional studies on speech and language in psychosis (December 3, 2023)

Speakers: Hugo Corona Hernández

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From referential to semantic meaning in psychotic discourse & Shrinking semantic space in schizophrenia: Cross lingual evidence and beyond consecutive similarity (November 17, 2023)

Speaker: Claudio Palominos & Rui He

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Uncertainty in the schizophrenic brain: a formal definition of conceptual disorganization under the free energy principle (October 27, 2023)

Speaker: Roberto Limongi

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Latent Factors in Speech and Language Disturbances in Schizophrenia: Identification and Characterization with Computational Methods (September 29, 2023)

Speakers: Dr Sunny Tang MD, Aarush Mehta, Dr Amir Nikzad MD, Dr. Yan Cong PhD, and Zak Singh

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Psychiatric Semiology and the errors in Natural Language Generation (June 17, 2023)

Speaker: Dr. Lena Palaniyappan

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Syntactic Network Analysis In Schizophrenia-Spectrum Disorders (April 14,2023)

Speaker: Silvia Ciampelli & Hugo Corona Hernandez

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Semantic speech networks - A novel approach to capturing speech abnormalities in psychosis (March 24, 2023)

Speaker: Caroline Nettekoven

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Neural correlates of formal thought disorder dimensions in psychosis - An analysis using the four dimensions of the TALD scale & Dimensions of Formal Thought Disorder and Their Relation to Gray- and White Matter Brain Structure in Affective and Psychotic Disorders (March 10, 2023)

Speaker: Sebastian Walther

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DISCOURSE SEMINARS 2022

Temporal measurement (October 21, 2022)

Speakers: Megan Boudewyn & Philip Sumner

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Grammar and Cognition (September 30, 2022)

Speaker: Wolfram Hinzen & Claudio Palominos

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Acoustics/AI (August 26, 2022)

Speaker: Alberto Parola & Visar Berisha

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Neuroanatomy (July 29, 2022)

Speakers: Lena Palaniyappan & Philipp Homan

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Automated Linguistics (June 24, 2022)

Speaker: Alban Voppel & Eric Tan

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Developmental Perspectives (June 3, 2022)

Speaker: Natália Mota & Valentina Bambini

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DISCOURSE SEMINARS 2021

Cognition (December 17, 2021)

Speakers: Gina Kuperberg

Discusant: Deb Titone

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Neuroimaging (November 19, 2021)

Speaker: Tilo Kircher

Discussant: Lena Palaniyappan

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Data Banking (October 29, 2021)

Speaker: Brian MacWhinney

Discussant: Iris Sommer

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Computational Linguistics (September 24, 2021)

Speakers: Cheryl Corcoran & Guillermo Cecchi

Discussant: Natália Mota

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Phenomenology/Clinical aspects - The nature of fragmentation in schizophrenia (August 27, 2021)

Speaker: Peter Liddle

Discussant: Peter McKenna

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