Reading between the lines: Combining pause dynamics and semantic coherence for automated assessment of thought disorder.
Neuropsychologia July 28, 2026 Feng Chen, Weizhe Xu, Changye Li et al.
Formal thought disorder (FTD), a hallmark of schizophrenia spectrum disorders, manifests as incoherent speech and poses challenges for clinical assessment. Traditional clinical rating scales, though validated, are resource-intensive and lack scalability. Automated speech recognition (ASR) allows for objective quantification of linguistic and temporal features of speech, offering scalable...