20–21 Apr 2026
Goethe University
Europe/Berlin timezone

Tracing Semantic Trajectories in ADHD

20 Apr 2026, 14:45
1h 30m
Casino Festsaal (Goethe University)

Casino Festsaal

Goethe University

Campus Westend Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 2 60323 Frankfurt am Main CoBIC Heinrich-Hoffmann-Straße 9 60528 Frankfurt am Main

Speaker

Kamil Piwowar (Goethe Universität)

Description

Large language models enable the quantification of speech as embeddings in a multidimensional semantic space. We collected interview data of an ADHD group (n = 74; 40 men and 34 women; mean age = 35.8 years) and healthy controls (n = 23; 14 men and 9 women; mean age = 33.6 years).  By modelling consecutive utterances as semantic trajectories, we found that the ADHD group showed greater semantic jumpiness than healthy controls in an ANCOVA. These findings suggest reduced stability of semantic progression between adjacent utterances in ADHD.

Author

Kamil Piwowar (Goethe Universität)

Co-authors

Christopher Landau (Goethe University) Hendrik Kröger Oliver Grimm (Goethe-Universität)

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