Rosa Ayesa Arriola
NeuroPsicoLab
Valdecilla IDIVAL
rosa.ayesa@idival.org
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Rosa Ayesa Arriola NeuroPsicoLab Valdecilla IDIVAL rosa.ayesa@idival.org |
| Participants: | 48/77/51 |
| Type of Study: | discourse -- conversations |
| Location: | Spain |
| Media type: | audio |
| DOI: | doi:10.21415/BABJ-5E50 |
Ayesa-Arriola, R., Martinez-Asensi, C., Díaz-Pons, A., Ortiz-García de la Foz, V., Parás, C., El Mouslih, C., Sattari, R., Incera, S., & Palaniyappan, L. (2026). Exploring the interplay between language use and cognitive function in schizophrenia spectrum disorders: Insights from patients, first degree relatives, and healthy controls. Schizophrenia Research: Cognition (43), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scog.2025.100398.
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From Ayesa-Arriola (2026):
This pilot study utilizes a family design framework based on the PAFIP-FAMILIAS project (PI17/00221), including 133 families of individuals with SSD. Between October 2022 and June 2023, 58 families participated in discourse assessments, with additional HC recruited from prior studies. In total, 176 participants (51 SSD patients, 50 parents, 27 siblings, and 48 HC) were assessed. All participants underwent a brief sociodemographic assessment, clinical data collection, neuropsychological evaluation, and a brief interview to gather information on discourse patterns.
The speech protocol consists of a total of 14 interviewer prompts/questions in 7 sections and was specifically designed by Discourse in Psychosis Consortium. Each section includes a specified minimum speech duration to facilitate as complete a response as possible. The full protocol took 20 to 30 min of administration and consisted of 7 tasks that all subjects completed it in the same order.
Task (1) free conversational speech (3 min): To begin, we use personally familiar, age- and culturally appropriate topics of conversation that do not strain one's learned knowledge;
Task (2) free personal narrative (2 min): In this task, participants are asked to recount events from their life. This provides a linguistic window into narratives in a first-person perspective;
Task (3) health narratives (3 min): In this task, participants are asked about their health. This provides symptom-related content as well as a historical narrative.
Task (4) Picture descriptions (3 min): Participants are shown three black-and-white pictures and asked to describe what they see. The images depict everyday scenes designed to manipulate context and assess visual and relational processing: (a) a woman holding a book in a rural scene, observing a man working in a field in the background; (b) a man stepping away from a woman who is holding him by the shoulders; (c) the sun shining through the clouds with a building on a bridge, while a woman stands on the bridge looking at the water. This task provides a referent with multiple descriptive components and subtle contextual manipulations, allowing examination of how participants interpret relationships and interactions between elements in a scene;
Task (5) story narration (2 min): Participant are shown images on a storyboard. This task supports a narrative with external focus that does not rely on personal experience;
Task (6) dream reports (1 min): Participants are asked to describe a repeated or most recent dream. Dream reports generate rich descriptions, at times with fantastic qualities of the reported content;
Task (7) reading and recall (3 min): Participants read a standard text aloud, providing data on articulatory output. This is followed by a brief recall, assessing short-term memory and comprehension. ---