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Tracking the dynamic breakdown of contextual coherence in schizophrenia using language models

  • By

  • Seunghyong Ryu

  • Ju-Wan Kim

  • Min Jhon

  • Young-Chul Chung

  • Seok Jun Kim

  • Suehyun Lee

  • Jae-Min Kim

  • Sung-Wan Kim

  • June 1, 2026

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    Disorganized speech in schizophrenia reflects disruptions in contextual integration, impacting multiple language domains.

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    The study analyzed speech from 249 patients with schizophrenia and 159 healthy controls using autoregressive language models.

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    Patients exhibited progressively divergent surprisal trajectories, indicating a breakdown in contextual predictability during discourse.

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    Temporal divergence in surprisal was most pronounced during unstructured narrative tasks, highlighting cognitive demand challenges.

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    Findings underscore the utility of temporal natural language processing metrics in understanding the psychopathology of schizophrenia.

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Tracking the dynamic breakdown of contextual coherence in schizophrenia using language models

  • by Seunghyong Ryu, Ju-Wan Kim, Min Jhon, Young-Chul Chung, Seok Jun Kim, Suehyun Lee, Jae-Min Kim, Sung-Wan Kim

  • June 1, 2026

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