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    • Discovering the structure and organization of a free Cantonese emotion-label word association graph to understand mental lexicons of emotions 

      Wong, Ting Yat; Fang, Zhiqian; Yu, Yat To; Cheung, Charlton; Hui, Christy L. M.; Elvevåg, Brita; De Deyne, Simon; Sham, Pak Chung; Chen, Eric Y. H. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-11-15)
      Emotions are not necessarily universal across different languages and cultures. Mental lexicons of emotions depend strongly on contextual factors, such as language and culture. The Chinese language has unique linguistic properties that are different from other languages. As a main variant of Chinese, Cantonese has some emotional expressions that are only used by Cantonese speakers. Previous work on ...

    • A Longitudinal Study of Semantic Networks in Schizophrenia and other Psychotic Disorders Using the Word Association Task 

      Pintos, Andrea Stephanie; Hui, Christy Lai-Ming; De Deyne, Simon; Cheung, Charlton; Ko, Wai Tung; Nam, Suen Yi; Chan, Sherry Kit-Wa; Chang, Wing-Chung; Lee, Edwin Ho-Ming; Lo, Alison Wai-Fan; Lo, Tak-Lam; Elvevåg, Brita; Chen, Eric Yu-Hai (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-08-24)
      The underpinnings of language deviations in psychotic symptoms (eg, formal thought disorder, delusions) remain unclear. We examined whether the semantic networks underlying word associations are useful predictors of clinical outcomes in psychosis. Fifty-one patients with schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders and 51 matched healthy controls generated words in a Cantonese continued word ...