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 …

Although subtle discourse declines in people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) have
been reported, heterogeneous measures and tasks among the MCI discourse studies have …

Language batteries used to assess the skills of elderly individuals, such as naming and
semantic verbal fluency, present some limitations in differentiating healthy controls from …

Structural and content-related deficits occur in connected discourse of patients with semantic
dementia (SD). We used principal components analysis (PCA) to characterise the sources of …

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 …

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is defined as impairment in cognitive function in the
absence of dementia, and in many cases it represents a prodromal state of dementia …

It is well-established that semantic deficits are observed in mild cognitive impairment (MCI).
However, the extent of impairment in different aspects of semantic function remains unclear …

Effective use of semantic knowledge requires a set of conceptual representations and
control processes which ensure that currently relevant aspects of this knowledge are …

Background: Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is an evolving, intermediate diagnostic
category between normal cognitive ageing and dementia in which individuals demonstrate …

Background The detection and description of language impairments in neurodegenerative
diseases like Alzheimer's Disease (AD) play an important role in research, clinical diagnosis …