Multimodal assessment of communicative-pragmatic features in schizophrenia: a machine learning approach.

ABSTRACT: An impairment in pragmatic communication is a core feature of schizophrenia, often associated with difficulties in social interactions. The pragmatic deficits regard various pragmatic phenomena, e.g., direct and indirect communicative acts, deceit, irony, and include not only the use of language but also other expressive means such as non-verbal/extralinguistic modalities, e.g., gestures and body movements, and paralinguistic cues, e.g., prosody and tone of voice. The present paper focuses on the identification of those pragmatic features, i.e., communicative phenomena and expressive modalities, that more reliably discriminate between individuals with schizophrenia and healthy controls. We performed a multimodal assessment of communicative-pragmatic ability, and applied a machine learning

SUBMITTER: Parola A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8144364 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature