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Deviance from a pink noise regime in the temporal organization of semantic relations in psychosis

Paola Moreno Ancalmo , Emre Bora , Rieke Roxanne M\"ulfarth , Svenja Seuffert , Tilo Kircher , Frederike Stein , Philipp Homan , Wolfram Hinzen This is my paper

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In psychosis, semantic relations in speech display abnormally strong long-range correlations, deviating from the pink noise regime seen in healthy controls.

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The paper applies detrended fluctuation analysis to time series of semantic similarity derived from transcripts to measure how meaning trajectories fluctuate over time. It finds that patients with psychosis have higher scaling exponents than controls across multiple datasets, meaning their semantic fluctuations are more persistent and correlated over long times. This matters because such deviations from scale-free dynamics are markers of pathology in other systems, suggesting language in psychosis may share similar organizational disruptions. A sympathetic reader would care because it links observable speech anomalies to underlying temporal scaling principles that might connect to brain function.

Core claim

Across all datasets, patients exhibited significantly elevated scaling exponents relative to controls, indicating abnormally strong long-range correlations with excessive persistence in semantic fluctuations.

What carries the argument

Detrended fluctuation analysis applied to BERT-derived cosine-similarity time series from discourse transcripts, which quantifies the strength of long-range temporal correlations in semantic space trajectories.

Load-bearing premise

That BERT-derived continuous cosine-similarity time series accurately capture the temporal organization of semantic relations as they unfold in natural discourse transcripts.

What would settle it

A replication study using different language models or manual semantic coding that finds no significant difference in scaling exponents between patient and control groups would falsify the claim.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.23043 by Emre Bora, Frederike Stein, Paola Moreno Ancalmo, Philipp Homan, Rieke Roxanne M\"ulfarth, Svenja Seuffert, Tilo Kircher, Wolfram Hinzen.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: DFA scaling exponents (α) across diagnostic groups in the Zürich (A), Izmir (B), and Marburg (C) datasets. Scatter points represent individual participants. Error bars indicate model￾estimated marginal means with 95% confidence intervals from adjusted linear regression models controlling for covariates. Brackets denote significant pairwise contrasts based on the fitted models (*p < .05 **p < .01, n.s. not … view at source ↗
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The notion of pink noise refers to 'scale-invariant' temporal dynamics, where fluctuations exhibit similar statistical structure across time scales. Departures from a regime associated with such scale-free organization toward uncorrelated 'white' noise or overly persistent 'brown' noise have been widely identified as markers of pathology across physiological and cognitive domains. Whether comparable alterations characterize the temporal organization of language remains largely unexplored. We address this question in the domain of psychosis, where language anomalies are pervasively documented. Specifically, we apply detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) to quantify temporal scaling in BERT-derived continuous cosine-similarity time series capturing trajectories through semantic space, using clinical transcripts from patients and controls across three independent datasets. DFA scaling exponents were extracted to characterize the strength of long-range temporal correlations. Across all datasets, patients exhibited significantly elevated scaling exponents relative to controls, indicating abnormally strong long-range correlations with excessive persistence in semantic fluctuations. This temporal analysis opens a window into the multi-timescale organization of meaning as it unfolds in discourse. The results reveal a signature of altered temporal scaling in speech, consistent with deviations from criticality in physiological domains, paralleling known departures from criticality in brain function in psychosis and suggesting possible links between these two domains.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript applies detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) to BERT-derived continuous cosine-similarity time series extracted from clinical transcripts across three independent datasets. It reports that patients with psychosis exhibit significantly elevated DFA scaling exponents relative to controls, interpreted as abnormally strong long-range correlations and excessive persistence in semantic fluctuations, indicating a departure from a pink-noise regime toward more persistent dynamics.

Significance. If substantiated with full statistical reporting and validation of the time-series construction, the work would extend concepts of scale-free dynamics and criticality from physiology to the temporal organization of semantic relations in discourse. It could provide a quantitative bridge between language anomalies in psychosis and known departures from criticality in brain function, using a parameter-light DFA approach on embedding-derived trajectories.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the claim of 'significantly elevated scaling exponents' across all datasets is stated without sample sizes, effect sizes, p-values, confidence intervals, or details on the statistical tests employed; this information is load-bearing for the central claim of a group difference and must be supplied in the main text and abstract.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract/Methods (implied): the construction of the 'BERT-derived continuous cosine-similarity time series' is not specified (token-level embeddings, aggregation method, handling of variable transcript lengths, or stationarity checks), so it is impossible to evaluate whether the series isolate semantic fluctuation trajectories or instead reflect embedding-space geometry, lexical-choice artifacts, or speech-rate confounds common in psychosis transcripts.
  3. [Abstract] Abstract: no mention is made of validation that the DFA time series meet the stationarity assumptions required for reliable exponent estimation, nor of any controls for speech-rate differences between groups; both are necessary to support the interpretation of elevated exponents as a signature of altered semantic organization.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the phrase 'pink noise regime' is used without a brief definition or reference to the canonical DFA exponent range (~0.5–1.5) that distinguishes it from white or brown noise.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive comments, which help clarify the presentation of our results. We address each major point below and will incorporate revisions to strengthen the manuscript.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the claim of 'significantly elevated scaling exponents' across all datasets is stated without sample sizes, effect sizes, p-values, confidence intervals, or details on the statistical tests employed; this information is load-bearing for the central claim of a group difference and must be supplied in the main text and abstract.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract and main text should report these details to support the central claim. The revised version will include sample sizes per dataset and group, effect sizes (e.g., Cohen's d), p-values, confidence intervals, and the specific statistical tests (two-sample t-tests or non-parametric equivalents after checking normality) in both the abstract and Results section. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract/Methods (implied): the construction of the 'BERT-derived continuous cosine-similarity time series' is not specified (token-level embeddings, aggregation method, handling of variable transcript lengths, or stationarity checks), so it is impossible to evaluate whether the series isolate semantic fluctuation trajectories or instead reflect embedding-space geometry, lexical-choice artifacts, or speech-rate confounds common in psychosis transcripts.

    Authors: The Methods section details the use of token-level embeddings from a pre-trained BERT model, computation of consecutive-token cosine similarities to form the time series, and handling of variable transcript lengths via consistent segmentation into fixed windows. To address the concern directly, the revision will add a concise description of this construction to the abstract and explicitly discuss potential confounds such as lexical choice or embedding geometry, along with any mitigation steps. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: no mention is made of validation that the DFA time series meet the stationarity assumptions required for reliable exponent estimation, nor of any controls for speech-rate differences between groups; both are necessary to support the interpretation of elevated exponents as a signature of altered semantic organization.

    Authors: We agree these validations are important for interpretation. The revised manuscript will report stationarity checks (e.g., results from the Augmented Dickey-Fuller test or visual inspection of trends) on the DFA time series and will include analyses or covariates addressing speech-rate differences (e.g., words per minute) between groups, either as supplementary controls or by noting their absence as a limitation if they prove non-significant. revision: yes

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full rationale

The derivation proceeds from construction of BERT cosine-similarity time series, through direct application of DFA to extract scaling exponents, to group comparison. No step reduces by construction to a fitted parameter renamed as prediction, no self-definitional loop exists between the scaling exponent and the input series, and no load-bearing self-citation or uniqueness theorem is invoked. The central empirical claim remains independent of its own inputs.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The central claim depends on standard assumptions from time-series analysis and computational linguistics rather than new postulates; no free parameters or invented entities are introduced in the abstract.

axioms (2)
  • domain assumption BERT embeddings and cosine similarity produce time series that reflect semantic relations in spoken discourse.
    Used to construct the input time series for DFA.
  • domain assumption Detrended fluctuation analysis is valid for detecting long-range correlations in these semantic similarity series.
    Core method applied without discussion of its suitability for this data type.

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