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    Individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD) experience reading comprehension challenges, particularly in complex tasks. These difficulties are linked to memory, language skills, and disease severity.

    Area of Science:

    • Neurology
    • Cognitive Science
    • Linguistics

    Background:

    • Parkinson's disease (PD) is often associated with self-reported reading difficulties.
    • Previous research has concentrated on sentence-level processing, neglecting discourse-level reading comprehension in PD.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To investigate reading comprehension deficits in individuals with Parkinson's disease.
    • To determine the relationship between reading performance and cognitive abilities in PD.
    • To test hypotheses of impaired reading accuracy/speed and correlation with cognitive test results.

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    • Eleven adults with PD and nine age/education-matched controls participated.
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    Conclusions:

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