Abstract Language has been used as a privileged window to investigate mental processes.
More recently, descriptions of psychopathological symptoms have been analyzed with the …

Brazil is a continental country with a history of massive immigration waves from around the
world. Consequently, the Brazilian population is rich in ethnic, cultural, and religious …

In recent years, different natural language processing tools measured aspects related to
narratives' structural, semantic, and emotional content. However, there is a need to better …

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) …

The study evaluated the connectedness of spontaneous speech production in individuals
with dementia as a potential predictor of dementia severity. Data were derived from the …

Background Dementia is a cognitive decline that leads to the progressive deterioration of an
individual's ability to perform daily activities independently. As a result, a considerable …

We investigate the association of short-and long-range recurrences (speech
connectedness) with age, education, and reading and writing habits (RWH) in typical aging …

Graphical representations of speech generate powerful computational measures related to
psychosis. Previous studies have mostly relied on structural relations between words as the …

Objective: Individuals with a stroke in either the left hemisphere (LH) or the right hemisphere
(RH) often present macrostructural impairments in narrative abilities. Understanding the …

The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between language components, such
as lexical density, length, and content in terms of “Time, Space and Action”, with MMSE …