Discourse in Mild Cognitive Impairment
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2019/10/0005/000367Keywords:
mild cognitive impairment, dementia, narrative languageAbstract
This paper reports on how persons with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) perform on two types of narrative tasks compared to a group of healthy controls (HC). The first task is a widely used picture description task and the other task is a more complex discourse task. Since the latter task puts higher demands on cognitivelinguistic skills, as seen in previous research, we expected this task to be more efficient in discriminating between the two groups. The results confirm this hypothesis.
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