A5072401590- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Language Development and Disorders
- Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
- Topic Modeling
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Stuttering Research and Treatment
- Machine Learning in Healthcare
- Motor Control and Adaptation
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Cardiovascular Syncope and Autonomic Disorders
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Scientific Computing and Data Management
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
- Text Readability and Simplification
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
- Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori di Pavia
2023-2025
Ab.Acus (Italy)
2022-2025
University of Milano-Bicocca
2019-2023
University of Verona
2022
University of Brescia
2022
Centro San Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli
2009-2019
Istituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico
2019
King's College London
2018
There is a growing body of literature highlighting the role that wearable and mobile remote measurement technology (RMT) can play in measuring symptoms major depressive disorder (MDD). Outcomes assessment typically relies on self-report, which be biased by dysfunctional perceptions current symptom severity. Predictors relapse include disrupted sleep, reduced sociability, physical activity, changes mood, prosody cognitive function, are all amenable to via RMT. This study aims to: 1) determine...
Mobile technology has the potential to provide accurate, impactful data on symptoms of depression, which could improve health management or assist in early detection relapse. However, for this be achieved, it is essential that patients engage with technology. Although many barriers and facilitators use are common across therapeutic areas types, may specific cultural contexts.This study aimed determine engagement mobile (mHealth) remote measurement depression three Western European...
Pragmatics is key to communicating effectively, and its assessment in vulnerable populations of paramount importance. Although tools exist for this purpose, they are often effortful time-consuming, with complex scoring procedures, which hampers their inclusion clinical practice. To address these issues, we present the Brief Assessment Pragmatic Abilities Cognitive Substrates (APACS Brief), a rapid (10 min), easy-to-use freely distributed tool evaluating pragmatics Italian, inspired by...
In the cognitive assessment of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders (SSD), standard scoring method for Verbal Fluency (VF) tasks is number correct words produced. Finer-grained measures, such as size semantic clusters and transitions between them, have been proposed to characterise functions involved, but results based on human ratings are heterogeneous. The objective this study was develop a computational procedure Vector Space Models (VSMs) assess predictive ability these fine-grained measures...
Physical Restraint (PR) is a coercive procedure used in emergency psychiatric care to ensure safety life-threatening situations. Because of its traumatic nature, studies emphasize the importance considering patient's subjective experience. We pursued this aim by overcoming classic qualitative approaches and innovatively applying multilayered semiautomated language analysis corpus narratives about PR collected from 99 individuals across seven mental health services Italy. Compared reference...
Abstract While some aspects of pragmatic competence are known to decline with age, for metaphor skills the evidence is inconclusive, possibly due heterogeneity in assessment tools. Furthermore, previous literature on age‐related changes has rarely considered role Theory Mind (ToM), which described as one main factors affecting across theoretical and experimental studies children clinical populations. This study aimed at elucidating differences understanding interplay between ToM middle‐aged...
Research on metaphor has steadily increased over the last decades, as this phenomenon opens a window into range of processes in language and cognition, from pragmatic inference to abstraction embodied simulation. At same time, demand for rigorously constructed extensively normed experimental materials well. Here, we present Figurative Archive, an open database 997 metaphors Italian enriched with rating corpus-based measures (from familiarity lexical frequency), derived by collecting stimuli...
Research on metaphor has steadily increased over the last decades, as this phenomenon opens a window into range of processes in language and cognition, from pragmatic inference to abstraction embodied simulation. At same time, demand for rigorously constructed extensively normed experimental materials well. Here, we present Figurative Archive, an open database 997 metaphors Italian enriched with rating corpus-based measures (from familiarity lexical frequency), derived by collecting stimuli...
Research on metaphor has steadily increased over the last decades, as this phenomenon opens a window into range of processes in language and cognition, from pragmatic inference to abstraction embodied simulation. At same time, demand for rigorously constructed extensively normed experimental materials well. Here, we present Figurative Archive, an open database 997 metaphors Italian enriched with rating corpus-based measures (from familiarity lexical frequency), derived by collecting stimuli...
Abstract Background Monitoring symptoms of bipolar disorder (BD) is a challenge faced by mental health services. Speech patterns are crucial in assessing the current experiences, emotions, and thought people with BD. Natural language processing (NLP) acoustic signal may support ongoing BD assessment within mobile (mHealth) framework. Objective Using both NLP-based features from speech BD, we built an app-based tool tested its feasibility performance to remotely assess individual clinical...
Neuroscience is increasingly making use of statistical and mathematical tools to extract information from images biological tissues. Computational neuroimaging require substantial computational resources the increasing availability large image datasets will further enhance this need. Many efforts have been directed towards creating brain repositories including recent US Alzheimer Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. Multisite-distributed computing infrastructures launched with goal fostering...
This study examines the pragmatic abilities of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a conversational agent based on multi-layer Transformer network GPT-3.5. To do so, we administered language battery to assess expressive and receptive skills compared results with human performance. ChatGPT were mostly human-like but revealed weaknesses in domains Gricean maxim quantity, text-based inferences, physical metaphors, humor comprehension. On one hand, these findings suggest that at least part linguistic competence,...
When acting together, we may represent not only our own individual goals but also a collective goal. Although behavioural evidence suggests that agents' motor plans might be related to goals, direct neurophysiological of whether are motorically represented is still scarce. The aim the present transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) study begin fill this gap. A participant and confederate were asked sequentially perform two-choice reaction time task by on pressure sensors. In their turn, they...
Background This study aimed at standardizing and providing preliminary evidence on the clinical usability of Italian telephone-based Verbal Fluency Battery (t-VFB), which includes phonemic (t-PVF), semantic (t-SVF) alternate (t-AVF) verbal fluency tasks. Methods Three-hundred thirty-five healthy participants (HPs; 140 males; age range = 18–96 years; education 4–23 years) 27 individuals with neurodegenerative or cerebrovascular diseases were administered t-VFB. Switch number cluster size...
Physical Restraint (PR) is a coercive procedure used in emergency psychiatric care to ensure safety life-threatening situations. Because of its traumatic nature, studies emphasize the importance considering patient's subjective experience, till now mostly limited qualitative approaches. We pursued this aim by innovatively applying multilayered semiautomated language analysis corpus narratives about PR collected from 99 individuals across seven mental health services Italy. Compared reference...
Physical Restraint (PR) is a coercive procedure used in emergency psychiatric care to ensure safety life-threatening situations. Because of its traumatic nature, studies emphasize the importance considering patient's subjective experience, till now mostly limited qualitative approaches. We pursued this aim by innovatively applying multilayered semiautomated language analysis corpus narratives about PR collected from 99 individuals across seven mental health services Italy. Compared reference...
Abstract People with schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD) show anomalies in language processing respect to “who is doing what” an action. This linguistic behavior suggestive of atypical representation the formal concepts “Agent” lexical a verb, i.e., its thematic grid. To test this hypothesis, we administered silent-reading task sentences including semantic violation animacy trait grammatical subject 30 people SSD and healthy control participants (HCs). When anomalous was Agent event,...
Language has always been a rich source of amnestic information in the context cognitive and affective disorders. Many language tests metrics that are employed today have designed when only available technology was paper pencil. Here we present novel digital tool to administer score set based on language.
This study examines the pragmatic abilities of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a conversational agent based on multi-layer Transformer network GPT-3.5. To do so, we administered language battery to assess expressive and receptive skills compared results with human performance. ChatGPT were mostly human-like but revealed weaknesses in domains Gricean maxim quantity, text-based inferences, physical metaphors, humor comprehension. On one hand, these findings suggest that at least part linguistic competence,...
<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> Mobile technology has the potential to provide accurate, impactful data on symptoms of depression, which could improve health management or assist in early detection relapse. However, for this be achieved, it is essential that patients engage with technology. Although many barriers and facilitators use are common across therapeutic areas types, may specific cultural contexts. </sec> <title>OBJECTIVE</title> This study aimed determine engagement mobile...
This study aimed at testing the presence of a disrupted lexical representation verbs thematic grid in people with Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders (SSD).A silent-reading task was administered to 32 SSD and matched healthy participants (HP). Stimuli were sentences including or not semantic violation animacy trait subject. Data on Gaze Duration (GD), Total Fixation (TFD) verbs, probability go-back movements from verb recorded.When anomalous grammatical subject Agent event, we found significant...