Theory of Mind (ToM) and language: stimulating metalinguistic skills in people with dementia

Rosell-Clari, Vicent; González, Beatriz

doi:10.1590/2317-1782/20162015295

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“…Future research should investigate cognitive function, especially the patient’s executive function, in a more comprehensive manner to resolve the controversy about the relationships between cognitive function and ToM. Clarifying these relationships may be helpful in improving or retraining ToM when some research has begun to provide insights in this direction 38 . Next, the emotional inference ability was evaluated in the current study solely by observing photographed pairs of eyes, even though in a real social context, the understanding of other people’s emotions may involve both verbal and non-verbal language.…”

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Emotion-Specific Affective Theory of Mind Impairment in Parkinson’s Disease

Chen

et al. 2018

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The neuropathology of Parkinson’s disease (PD) involves the frontal-subcortical circuit, an area responsible for processing affective theory of mind (ToM). Patients with PD are expected to experience deficits in the affective ToM. This study aims to investigate whether the ability to infer emotion in others is affected in either young-onset Parkinson’s disease (YOPD) or middle-onset PD (MOPD) patients and to test whether the impairments in affective ToM are associated with the motor symptoms. The affective ToM, global mental abilities, and clinical symptoms were assessed in a total of 107 MOPD, 30 YOPD, and 30 normal controls (NCs). The MOPD patients exhibited deficits in affective ToM to the negative and neutral valences, when compared to the participants in the NCs and YOPD group. By conducting gender-stratified analysis, the deficits in affective ToM was only found in female participants. After adjusting for demographic variables, the multiple linear regression model revealed that affective ToM predicted motor symptoms, especially in female MOPD patients. The present study may aid in the development of medical care programs by advocating for a more comprehensive therapeutic plan that includes continuous disease progression monitoring and social skills training for female MOPD patients or their caregivers.

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Emotion-Specific Affective Theory of Mind Impairment in Parkinson’s Disease

Chen

et al. 2018

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“…(PS23:396) Con este código puede apreciarse una diferencia importante en la cantidad de citas de cada grupo. Los participantes con DTA aparentemente tienen más necesidades de corregir enunciados que los participantes sanos por razones de problemas cognitivos (2,14,15,18) . En el caso del ejemplo 10, la hablante reformula para hacer más precisa la información sobre dónde vivía antes de entrar al ELEAM.…”

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“…Experiencias con personas mayores con distintas condiciones cognitivas permiten ejemplificar la utilidad de la evaluación orientada a la conversación bien como examinar la relación entre el diagnóstico, el desempeño cognitivo y las capacidades lingüísticas y conversacionales (18) . A través del Análisis Conversacional (AC) es posible observar una multiplicidad de elementos como el funcionamiento de la comunicación en un contexto real, de manera no idealizada pero basada en los datos, analizando el discurso conversacional por lo que contiene y no exclusivamente por lo que no contiene (6) .…”

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Reformulación conversacional en personas con la enfermedad de Alzheimer

Sotelo

Mac-Kay

2022

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RESUMEN Objetivo en la conversación coloquial surgen diversas dificultades que se van reparando en vivo mientras esta se va desarrollando. La reformulación conversacional es una estrategia lingüística que va dando cuenta de las capacidades de los interlocutores para favorecer la comprensión mutua necesaria para la comunicación efectiva. El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo analizar las reformulaciones de 10 adultos mayores con Demencia tipo Alzheimer (DTA) y 10 adultos mayores sin demencia, y determinar si constituyen un elemento útil para el diagnóstico de la persona con DTA. Método se eligió el análisis conversacional como procedimiento metodológico y se propuso una entrevista de tipo conversación de corte autobiográfico y la aplicación de algunos ítems del protocolo MetAphAs. Resultados los resultados muestran que la reformulación auto-iniciada es más frecuente que las demás en ambos grupos, aunque las personas con DTA realizan mayor número de reformulaciones inadecuadas que muchas veces no favorecen la comprensión mutua. La hetero-reformulación aparece con mayor frecuencia en las conversaciones en personas con DTA, indicando la necesidad de la intervención del interlocutor para reparar la conversación. Conclusión en la presente investigación se ha podido evidenciar que la capacidad de utilizar la estrategia de reformulación es sensible al desempeño cognitivo de personas con DTA.

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“…For this reason, many authors observe a relationship linking executive functions and language [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21].…”

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Theory of Mind and Language in the Adult: Some Considerations from the Perspective of Speech Therapy

Valles-Gonzlez¹,

Rosell-Clari²

2017

J Speech Pathol Ther

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This study shows a review about the relationship between language development and Theory of Mind (ToM) from a pragmatic-functionalist approach, based on a qualitative analysis of the role of textual and contextual categories, as an activity related to social, emotional and cognitive aspects during adulthood. From a functional approach, the study of language and human communication is understood as a process influenced by personal, linguistic, social, and cultural factors. In a pragmatic-functional view, the study of the functions related to ToM is a fundamental task, since communication depends on multiple factors and people with language impairment like people with dementia, can face many troubles in ToM abilities. For these reasons language therapist need to use the MetAphAs protocol in order to assess language in a whole vision. Language therapy techniques aimed at stimulating face-to-face conversation can be planned in different ways. The Programme of Stimulation of Metalinguistic Skills in Theory of Mind for People with Dementia helps to stimulate the metalinguistic performance in the most natural contexts possible.

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Theory of Mind (ToM) and language: stimulating metalinguistic skills in people with dementia

Cited by 7 publications

References 18 publications

Emotion-Specific Affective Theory of Mind Impairment in Parkinson’s Disease

Emotion-Specific Affective Theory of Mind Impairment in Parkinson’s Disease

Reformulación conversacional en personas con la enfermedad de Alzheimer

Theory of Mind and Language in the Adult: Some Considerations from the Perspective of Speech Therapy

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