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  • Neurolinguistics
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Speech-Language Pathology

Background:

  • Cognitive impairment impacts semantic production, affecting language abilities.
  • Differentiating stable cognitive impairment from progressive cognitive decline is clinically significant.
  • Discourse analysis offers insights into semantic processing challenges.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if semantic analysis of discourse tasks differentiates cognitive decline from stable impairment.
  • To compare quantitative semantic measures with qualitative discourse analysis.
  • To assess the utility of discourse features in classifying cognitive status.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a discourse task for semantic production analysis.
  • Employed quantitative oral lexical retrieval tests.
  • Conducted qualitative narrative analysis.
  • Performed classification experiments using discourse features.

Main Results:

  • Both quantitative and qualitative methods identified semantic difficulties.
  • Oral lexical retrieval tests were most effective in differentiating cognitive decline from stable impairment.
  • Discourse features enhanced classification accuracy, achieving an Area Under the Curve (AUC) of 0.93.

Conclusions:

  • Semantic analysis of discourse tasks can aid in differentiating cognitive decline.
  • Oral lexical retrieval tests show high efficacy in distinguishing cognitive trajectories.
  • Integrating discourse features improves the classification of cognitive impairment progression.