Your words may predict your future mental health | Mariano Sigman
Reading the title, I didn't know what to expect from this talk. Semantics is what I'm interested in as I love to play with words and their meanings.
Watching this talk, I was introduced to new terms (to me) 'Schizophrenia' and also a interesting personality, "St. Augustine."
Mariano Sigman combined neuro science, math, social science to reveal the information flowing through our brain. Woah! Too many disciplines to work on!
Coming to the talk, he cited how words revealed the culture of ancient greeks. He showed how the world of introspection started. They computed the whole work to know the advent of Introspection period. They not only analyzed the recorded ancient greek texts but, also Bible.
They were successful in tracing out the rise of introspection.
Regarding their project, they worked with 34 people who were at high risk of developing schizophrenia.
They analyzed the words they speak, they mail, they tweet. They analyzed the recorded speech and failed utterly in predicting their future organization of their mind. Interesting right. It was good enough to an extent. And then they emphasised on the tone of the word spoken. The context!
They brought in the context of the 'text.' They wanted to analyze the way the words were jumped in the speech. They were trying to read in between the lines.They named it 'Semantic Coherence.'
And it worked. With 100% accuracy, they could segregate within the group of who developed Psychosis and who will not.
He also gave an anecdote of sensing the situation through his student words.
This is something which leaves everything to ourselves and judge. This can pave a way to introspect about our state of mind. And this is exactly what we need in this hour.
Watching this talk, I was introduced to new terms (to me) 'Schizophrenia' and also a interesting personality, "St. Augustine."
Mariano Sigman combined neuro science, math, social science to reveal the information flowing through our brain. Woah! Too many disciplines to work on!
Coming to the talk, he cited how words revealed the culture of ancient greeks. He showed how the world of introspection started. They computed the whole work to know the advent of Introspection period. They not only analyzed the recorded ancient greek texts but, also Bible.
They were successful in tracing out the rise of introspection.
Regarding their project, they worked with 34 people who were at high risk of developing schizophrenia.
They analyzed the words they speak, they mail, they tweet. They analyzed the recorded speech and failed utterly in predicting their future organization of their mind. Interesting right. It was good enough to an extent. And then they emphasised on the tone of the word spoken. The context!
They brought in the context of the 'text.' They wanted to analyze the way the words were jumped in the speech. They were trying to read in between the lines.They named it 'Semantic Coherence.'
And it worked. With 100% accuracy, they could segregate within the group of who developed Psychosis and who will not.
He also gave an anecdote of sensing the situation through his student words.
This is something which leaves everything to ourselves and judge. This can pave a way to introspect about our state of mind. And this is exactly what we need in this hour.
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