Propositional density in spoken and written language of Czech-speaking patients with mild cognitive impairment

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://jslhr.pubs.asha.org/article.aspx?articleid=2593631" target="_blank" >http://jslhr.pubs.asha.org/article.aspx?articleid=2593631</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/2016_JSLHR-L-15-0301" target="_blank" >10.1044/2016_JSLHR-L-15-0301</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Propositional density in spoken and written language of Czech-speaking patients with mild cognitive impairment

Original language description

Purpose: Propositional density (PD) is a measure of content richness in language production that declines in normal aging and more profoundly in dementia. The present study had two goals: 1) test a propositional density scoring system for Czech; 2) compare propositional density in spoken and written language productions of older people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and control participants matched on age, gender, and education. Method: Groups of MCI patients and cognitively healthy controls (N=20 each) provided short spoken and language samples. Two samples were elicited for each modality, one describing recent events and one childhood memories. A series of neuropsychological tests were administered. The groups were compared using t-tests, the relations between measures using correlation coefficients. Results: PD was lower in spoken productions of patients with MCI, compared to controls, but only in language samples based on remote memories. PD in these samples was related to verbal fluency and education, but not working memory. PD in written samples did not differ in participants with MCI and controls. Conclusions: PD in spoken language reflects the cognitive decline in MCI, but the effect is relatively mild. The results support the existing findings that PD is related to verbal fluency.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AN - Psychology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/ED2.1.00%2F03.0078" target="_blank" >ED2.1.00/03.0078: National institute of Mental Health</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research

ISSN

1558-9102

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

59

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

1461-1470

UT code for WoS article

000391401000024

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85006964646