Valerie F Reyna, Frank Farley
Risk and Rationality in Adolescent Decision Making: Implications for Theory, Practice, and Public Policy
Psychological science in the public interest : a journal of the American Psychological Society
language ability communicate effectively key factors mental health wellbeing despite critical importance research language limited lack scalable phenotyping toolkit describe showcase lingo flexible online battery language nonverbal reasoning skills based seven widely used tasks cowat picture narration vocal rhythm entrainment rapid automatized naming following directions sentence repetition nonverbal reasoning current version lingo takes approximately 30 minutes complete entirely open source allows wide variety performance metrics extracted asked 1300 individuals multiple samples complete lingo investigated validity utility resulting data conducted exploratory factor analysis across 14 features derived seven assessments identifying five factors four five factors showed acceptable testretest reliability pearsons r 07 factor 2 showed highest reliability pearsons r 095 loaded primarily sentence repetition task performance validated lingo objective measures language ability comparing performance goldstandard assessments celf5 vabs3 factor 2 significantly associated celf5 core language ability scale pearsons r 077 pvalue 005 vabs3 communication scale pearsons r 074 pvalue 005 factor 2 positively associated phenotypic genetic measures socieconomic status interestingly found parents children language impairments lower factor 2 scores pvalue 001 finally found lingo factor scores significantly predictive numerous psychiatric neurodevelopmental conditions together analyses support lingo powerful platform scalable deep phenotyping language cognitive abilities additionally exploratory analyses provide supporting evidence heritability language ability complex relationship mental health language