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Management Of Topic In The Spoken Discourse Of Persons Living With Mild Cognitive Impairment And Alzheimer’S Dementia, Sydney A. Difruscia
Management Of Topic In The Spoken Discourse Of Persons Living With Mild Cognitive Impairment And Alzheimer’S Dementia, Sydney A. Difruscia
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Analyses of elicited spoken discourse can identify mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer’s dementia (AD). Topic management, one feature of discourse defined as acts that maintain or terminate an established topic, can be measured via global coherence measures. Little is known, however, about whether analyses of topic management can distinguish spoken discourse performances of persons living with MCI (PLwMCI) vs. persons living with AD (PLwAD). The current study investigated whether there are differences in topic management in the spoken discourse performances of PLwMCI vs. PLwAD. Analyses were conducted on 120 transcripts of spoken sequenced story picture descriptions of PLwMCI (n=83) …