Artificial intelligence, speech, and language processing approaches to monitoring Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review

S De la Fuente Garcia, CW Ritchie… - Journal of Alzheimer's …, 2020 - content.iospress.com
Background: Language is a valuable source of clinical information in Alzheimer's disease,
as it declines concurrently with neurodegeneration. Consequently, speech and language …

A systematic review of normative data for verbal fluency test in different languages

D Villalobos, L Torres-Simón, J Pacios, N Paul… - Neuropsychology …, 2023 - Springer
Verbal fluency tests are easy and quick to use in neuropsychological assessments, so they
have been counted among the most classical tools in this context. To date, several …

Thought disorder measured as random speech structure classifies negative symptoms and schizophrenia diagnosis 6 months in advance

NB Mota, M Copelli, S Ribeiro - npj Schizophrenia, 2017 - nature.com
In chronic psychotic patients, word graph analysis shows potential as complementary
psychiatric assessment. This analysis relies mostly on connectedness, a structural feature of …

Verbal fluency and risk of dementia

AR Sutin, Y Stephan… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Verbal fluency is a common neuropsychological test that is impaired in dementia.
We test whether verbal fluency is a prospective risk factor for incident dementia, cognitive …

A review of automated speech and language features for assessment of cognitive and thought disorders

R Voleti, JM Liss, V Berisha - IEEE journal of selected topics in …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It is widely accepted that information derived from analyzing speech (the acoustic signal)
and language production (words and sentences) serves as a useful window into the health …

Speech as a graph: developmental perspectives on the organization of spoken language

NB Mota, J Weissheimer, I Finger, M Ribeiro… - Biological Psychiatry …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Language has been used as a privileged window to investigate mental processes.
More recently, descriptions of psychopathological symptoms have been analyzed with the …

Network neuropsychology: The map and the territory

CE Ferguson - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
In “network neuropsychology”, network modelling and graph theory is applied to the
neuropsychological test scores of patients with neurological disorders to investigate …

Verbal fluency tests assess global cognitive status but have limited diagnostic differentiation: evidence from a large-scale examination of six neurodegenerative …

SK Henderson, KA Peterson, K Patterson… - Brain …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Verbal fluency is widely used as a clinical test, but its utility in differentiating between
neurodegenerative dementias and progressive aphasias, and from healthy controls …

Structural differences between REM and non-REM dream reports assessed by graph analysis

JM Martin, DW Andriano, NB Mota, SA Mota-Rolim… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Dream reports collected after rapid eye movement sleep (REM) awakenings are, on
average, longer, more vivid, bizarre, emotional and story-like compared to those collected …

Effects of age-related cognitive decline on elderly user interactions with voice-based dialogue systems

M Kobayashi, A Kosugi, H Takagi, M Nemoto… - … –INTERACT 2019: 17th …, 2019 - Springer
Cognitive functioning that affects user behaviors is an important factor to consider when
designing interactive systems for the elderly, including emerging voice-based dialogue …