Sentence processing in mild cognitive impairment

DN Pereira, W da Cruz Souza, AFR Belan… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Difficulties in sentence processing have been reported in patients with Mild Cognitive
Impairment (MCI), which may be due to impairment in primary syntactic abilities or short-term …

Automatic Detection of Putative Mild Cognitive Impairment from Speech Acoustic Features in Mandarin-Speaking Elders

R Wang, C Kuang, C Guo, Y Chen, C Li… - Journal of …, 2023 - content.iospress.com
Background: To date, the reliable detection of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) remains a
significant challenge for clinicians. Very few studies investigated the sensitivity of acoustic …

AI‐based assessments of speech and language impairments in dementia

M Parsapoor - Alzheimer's & Dementia, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Recent advancements in the artificial intelligence (AI) domain have revolutionized the early
detection of cognitive impairments associated with dementia. This has motivated clinicians …

A comparison of different connected-speech tasks for detecting mild cognitive impairment using multivariate pattern analysis

Y Chen, RJ Hartsuiker, A Pistono - Aphasiology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Background It is common for the elderly population to have age-associated cognitive decline
and/or develop neurodegenerative diseases such as dementia. Several studies have …

Predicting Scores on the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) from Spontaneous Speech

AM Bueno-Cayo, M del Rio Carmona… - Behavioral …, 2022 - mdpi.com
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 …

Non-transcription analysis of connected speech in mild cognitive impairment using an information unit scoring system

H Kim, JE Sung, JH Jeong - Journal of Neurolinguistics, 2022 - Elsevier
Purpose The purpose of the current study was (1) to compare the performance of individuals
with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and cognitively healthy adults (CHA) on story retelling …

Textual inference comprehension in mild cognitive impairment: The influence of semantic processing and verbal episodic memory

MP Maziero, AFR Belan, MZA Camargo… - Frontiers in Aging …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Language complaints, especially in complex tasks, may occur in mild cognitive impairment
(MCI). Various language measures have been studied as cognitive predictors of MCI …

Using spectral sequence-to-sequence autoencoders to assess mild cognitive impairment

M Vetráb, JV Egas-López, R Balogh… - ICASSP 2022-2022 …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dementia is a chronic or progressive clinical syndrome, mainly characterized by the
deterioration of memory, thinking, reasoning and language. In Mild cognitive impairment …

AI-powered language assessment tools for dementia

M Parsapoor, MR Alam, A Mihailidis - arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.12652, 2022 - arxiv.org
The main objective of this paper is to propose an approach for developing an Artificial
Intelligence (AI)-powered Language Assessment (LA) tool. Such tools can be used to …

Rates of cognitive and functional impairments in older adults residing in a continuing care senior housing community

R Van Patten, Z Mahmood, TT Nguyen… - Journal of the …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Objective: The current cross-sectional study examined cognition and performance-based
functional abilities in a continuing care senior housing community (CCSHC) that is …