Lingo: an automated, web-based deep phenotyping platform for language ability.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Language and the ability to communicate effectively are key factors in mental health and well-being. Despite this critical importance, research on language is limited by the lack of a scalable phenotyping toolkit.

Methods

Here, we describe and showcase Lingo - a flexible online battery of language and nonverbal reasoning skills based on seven widely used tasks (COWAT, picture narration, vocal rhythm entrainment, rapid automatized naming, following directions, sentence repetition, and nonverbal reasoning). The current version of Lingo takes approximately 30 minutes to complete, is entirely open source, and allows for a wide variety of performance metrics to be extracted. We asked > 1,300 individuals from multiple samples to complete Lingo, then investigated the val

SUBMITTER: Casten LG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10996758 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature