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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jul 30.
Published in final edited form as: Schizophr Res. 2018 Feb 12;197:392–399. doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2018.01.007

Table 2.

The Five Audiorecordings of Speech: Three Elicitation Tasks for Spontaneous Speech and Two for Reading Aloud

Task 1 Participants were shown a line drawing and asked to describe the picture with as much detail as possible. They were allowed two minutes to speak.
Task 2 Participants were asked to speak for two minutes (after up to 30 seconds of thinking and planning a response) in relation to, “Please describe what a perfect, most ideal day would be like for you.”
Task 3 Participants were asked to speak for two minutes (again, after up to 30 seconds of thinking/planning) in response to, “Please tell me about the scariest, most frightening experience you’ve ever had.”
Task 4 We obtained a recording of reading aloud—among those with a WRAT reading grade equivalent of ≥8 (n=141 (70.9%); specifically, 65 (66.3%) patients and 76 (75.2%) controls)—using the same neutral text passage as Stassen et al. (1995) and Rapcan et al. (2010), who provided us with their exact excerpt. This required approximately two minutes to read.
Task 5 Again, in those with a WRAT reading grade equivalent of ≥8, we obtained another recording of reading aloud, using the same emotionally stimulating text passage as Stassen et al. (1995) and Rapcan et al. (2010), who, again, provided their excerpt (Task 5). This also required about two minutes to read.