Topological data analysis of cortical word representations in health and schizophrenia
Ryusuke Hayashi, Shizuo Kaji, Yukiko Matsumoto, Satoshi Nishida, Shinji Nishimoto, Hidehiko Takahashi · FENS Forum 2024
Patients with schizophrenia commonly exhibit a symptom of disorganized thought, including delusions and incoherent speech, which are characterized by impaired connections between concepts. Interestingly, these patients show seemingly contradicting behaviors depending on the level of abstraction, such as concreteness and over-inclusion in their verbal reports. However, the fundamental pathology underling the difficulties that patients face in selecting an appropriate level of abstraction remains poorly understood. In this study, we applied an encoding modeling method to functional magnetic reso
ePoster · Neuroscience