Reviewing the quality of discourse information measures in aphasia

M Pritchard, K Hilari, N Cocks… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Background Discourse is fundamental to everyday communication, and is an increasing
focus of clinical assessment, intervention and research. Aphasia can affect the information a …

Social communication following traumatic brain injury part I: State-of-the-art review of assessment tools

MKM Sohlberg, S MacDonald, L Byom… - … Journal of Speech …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose: The primary aim of this paper was to identify and describe current social
communication assessment tools for adults with traumatic brain injury. Method: We …

Correlating natural language processing and automated speech analysis with clinician assessment to quantify speech-language changes in mild cognitive impairment …

A Yeung, A Iaboni, E Rochon, M Lavoie… - Alzheimer's research & …, 2021 - Springer
Background Language impairment is an important marker of neurodegenerative disorders.
Despite this, there is no universal system of terminology used to describe these impairments …

Treatment for improving discourse in aphasia: a systematic review and synthesis of the evidence base

L Dipper, J Marshall, M Boyle, N Botting, D Hersh… - Aphasiology, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Improved discourse production is a priority for all key stakeholders in aphasia
rehabilitation. A Cochrane review of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) for aphasia found …

A neural model for predicting dementia from language

W Kong, H Jang, G Carenini… - Machine Learning for …, 2019 - proceedings.mlr.press
Early prediction of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) and
related dementias is important in developing early medical supports and social supports …

Dismantling the “visual ease assumption:" A review of visual narrative processing in clinical populations

EL Coderre - Topics in Cognitive Science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Visual narratives, such as wordless picture books and picture sequences like comics, have a
long history in clinical testing, research, and intervention settings. The widespread “Visual …

Discourse macrolinguistic impairment as a marker of linguistic and extralinguistic functions decline in early Alzheimer's disease

A Pistono, M Jucla, C Bézy, B Lemesle… - … Journal of Language …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Background Alzheimer's disease is characterized by macrolinguistic changes. This decline
is often analyzed with quantitative scales. Aims To analyze discourse production in early …

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 …

Toward harmonization of strategies for investigating lucidity in AD/ADRD: A preliminary research framework

A Gilmore‐Bykovskyi, JM Griffin… - Alzheimer's & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Episodes of lucidity (ELs) in Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's disease‐related
dementias (AD/ADRD), have garnered increasing attention as an important area of …

Working memory and discourse production in people with aphasia

D Cahana-Amitay, T Jenkins - Journal of Neurolinguistics, 2018 - Elsevier
This study explored the relationship between Working Memory (WM) and discourse
production in people with aphasia, based on data from the AphasiaBank. The dataset …