Events
3rd April 2025
Chicago, Illinois, USA
DISCOURSE Consortium Satellite Meeting
Rui He gave an oral presentation on the PANSS prediction project, a collaborative effort involving around ten research groups. The study aims to develop a cross-lingual, fully automated model for predicting PANSS symptom scores from spontaneous speech using audio data only. It is supported by the TRUSTING project.
30th March 2025
Chicago, Illinois, USA
2025 Congress of the Schizophrenia International Research Society Conference (SIRS)
Rui He presented the coherence study at the symposium
“The Neuroscience of Language in Psychosis: A Diverse Global Perspective from the DISCOURSE Consortium.” Funded by the Delta-Lang project, the study explores semantic and neural markers of (in)coherence in both typical and psychotic speech.
30th March 2025
Chicago, Illinois, USA
2025 Congress of the Schizophrenia International Research Society Conference (SIRS)
Rui He presented the poster tilted “Structural Brain Complexity is Associated with Semantic Connectedness in the Schizophrenia Spectrum”.
21 February 2025, 11.30-13:30 h
52.737 (Poblenou Campus)
Mini-Workshop: language in psychosis as a new frontier: theoretical and practical challenges
zoom link: https://upf-edu.zoom.us/j/
11:30 – 12:10: Matthew Nour (Oxford University, UK)
Webpage: https://matthewnour.
Decoding cognitive state sequencing using large language models
12:10 – 12:50: Sarah Morgan (King’s College London, UK)
Webpage: https://www.kcl.ac.
New network approaches to predict and understand mental health conditions
12:50 – 13:30: Joseph Kambeitz (University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Germany)
21 February 2025, 09.00 h
55.410 (Poblenou Campus)
Claudio Palominos thesis defence
Congratulations to Claudio Palominos on successfully defending his PhD thesis titled "Lexical versus referential meaning in spontaneous speech in psychosis: computational explorations of the semantic space"! In his work, supervised by Wolfram Hinzen (UPF) and Alicia Figueroa-Barra (U. Chile), he leverages computational methods to explore lexical-conceptual and referential meaning in schizophrenia spectrum disorder (SSD). The thesis was evaluated by Dr. Matthew Nour (Oxford University), Dr. Joseph Kambeitz (Cologne University) and Dr. Sarah Morgan (King's College London).
Well done, Claudio!