• Automated analysis of free speech predicts psychosis onset in high-risk youths 

      Bedi, Gillinder; Carrillo, Facundo; Cecchi, Guillermo A.; Fernández Slezak, Diego; Sigman, Mariano; Mota, Natália B.; Ribeiro, Sidarta; Javitt, Daniel C.; Copelli, Mauro; Corcoran, Cheryl M. (2015-08-26)
      BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Psychiatry lacks the objective clinical tests routinely used in other specializations. Novel computerized methods to characterize complex behaviors such as speech could be used to identify and predict ...
    • Producing or reproducing reasoning? Socratic dialog is very effective, but only for a few 

      Goldin, Andrea Paula; Pedroncini, Olivia; Sigman, Mariano (2017-03-23)
      Successful communication between a teacher and a student is at the core of pedagogy. A well known example of a pedagogical dialog is `Meno', a socratic lesson of geometry in which a student learns (or `discovers') how ...
    • Quantitative pedagogy : a digital two player game to examine communicative competence 

      López-Rosenfeld, Matías; Carrillo, Facundo; Garbulsky, Gerry; Fernandez Slezak, Diego; Sigman, Mariano (2015-11-10)
      nner concepts are much richer than the words that describe them. Our general objective is to inquire what are the best procedures to communicate conceptual knowledge. We con- struct a simplified and controlled setup emulating ...