Garcia-Camargo presents patterns in speech of children on autism spectrum

Computer science student Leon Garcia-Camargo ('23) presented a paper at the 44th annual Cognitive Science Society conference, held in Toronto, Canada in July.

The short talk gave an overview of research with Dr. Paul De Palma, professor of computer science; fellow GU student Joseph Stover, and other collaborators from WSU and the University of New Mexico.

De Palma uses artificial intelligence -- or AI -- to find and evaluate patterns in pre-recorded speech. He advised Garcia-Camargo's focused research on speech of children with autism spectrum disorder.

The mission of the Cognitive Science Society is to promote Cognitive Science as a discipline, and to foster scientific interchange among researchers in various areas of study, including artificial intelligence, linguistics, anthropology, psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, and education.

Garcia-Camargo, L., J. Kilfoyle, P. De Palma, M. Vandam, and J. Stover (2022) “A First Look at Zipf’s Law and the Speech of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder,” short talk, CogSci 2022, 44th Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Toronto Canada, July 27-30.