Alzheimer's dementia recognition through spontaneous speech

S Luz, F Haider, S de la Fuente Garcia… - Frontiers in computer …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The need for inexpensive, safe, accurate and non-invasive biomarkers for Alzheimer's
disease (AD) has motivated much current research (Mandell and Green, 2011). While …

Speech changes in old age: methodological considerations for speech‐based discrimination of healthy ageing and Alzheimer's disease

O Ivanova, I Martínez‐Nicolás… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background Recent evidence suggests that speech substantially changes in ageing. As a
complex neurophysiological process, it can accurately reflect changes in the motor and …

Alzheimer's dementia recognition from spontaneous speech using disfluency and interactional features

S Nasreen, M Rohanian, J Hough… - Frontiers in Computer …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive, neurodegenerative disorder mainly characterized
by memory loss with deficits in other cognitive domains, including language, visuospatial …

Language network connectivity increases in early Alzheimer's disease

A Pistono, M Senoussi, L Guerrier… - Journal of …, 2021 - content.iospress.com
Background: Language production deficits occur early in the course of Alzheimer's disease
(AD); however, only a few studies have focused on language network's functional …

Low speech connectedness in Alzheimer's disease is associated with poorer semantic memory performance

BLC Malcorra, NB Mota, J Weissheimer… - Journal of …, 2021 - content.iospress.com
Connected speech is an everyday activity. We aimed to investigate whether connected
speech can differentiate oral narrative production between adults with Alzheimer's disease …

Automated text‐level semantic markers of Alzheimer's disease

C Sanz, F Carrillo, A Slachevsky… - Alzheimer's & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Automated speech analysis has emerged as a scalable, cost‐effective tool to
identify persons with Alzheimer's disease dementia (ADD). Yet, most research is …

Using a discourse task to explore semantic ability in persons with cognitive impairment

M Antonsson, K Lundholm Fors… - Frontiers in Aging …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
This paper uses a discourse task to explore aspects of semantic production in persons with
various degree of cognitive impairment and healthy controls. The purpose of the study was …

Comparing global and local semantic coherence of spontaneous speech in persons with Alzheimer's disease and healthy controls

E Burke, J Gunstad, P Hamrick - Applied Corpus Linguistics, 2023 - Elsevier
There is growing evidence that corpus-based computational tools are useful in identifying
changes in speech that appear to accompany cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease (AD) …

Can discourse processing performance serve as an early marker of Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment? A systematic review of text comprehension

E Kokje, S Celik, HW Wahl… - European Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
A number of linguistic and cognitive deficits have been reported during the course of
Alzheimer's disease (AD) and its preceding stage of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), with …

Automated assessment of speech production and prediction of MCI in older adults

V Sanborn, R Ostrand, J Ciesla… - Applied …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The population of older adults is growing dramatically and, with it comes increased
prevalence of neurological disorders, including Alzheimer's disease (AD). Though existing …