Disruption of reference in aging

Ulatowska, Hanna K.; Hayashi, Mitsuhiro; Cannito, Michael P.; Fleming, Susan G.

doi:10.1016/0093-934x(86)90088-x

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“…A variety of procedures have been used to elicit such narratives. These normally involve the speaker describing a familiar domestic routine such as mailing a letter (Ulatowska, Allard, Donnell, Bristow, Haynes, Flower, & North, 1988;Ulatowska, Hayashi, Cannito, & Fleming, 1986), changing a tire (Roman et al, 1987), or making a sandwich (Coppens, 1995;Ulatowska et al, 1981Ulatowska et al, , 1983. Alternatively, a novel board game has been used as a stimulus in both developmental and brain-injury studies (Flavell, 1975;McDonald, 1993b;McDonald & Pearce, 1995).…”

Section: Pragmatic Competence Batterymentioning

confidence: 98%

Exploring the Cognitive Basis of Right-Hemisphere Pragmatic Language Disorders

McDonald

2000

Brain and Language

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Section: Pragmatic Competence Batterymentioning

confidence: 98%

Exploring the Cognitive Basis of Right-Hemisphere Pragmatic Language Disorders

McDonald

2000

Brain and Language

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“…Prior studies of discourse in the elderly have indicated qualitative and quantitative differences relative to younger control subjects [32,[42][43][44][45]. Stover and Haynes completed a cohesion analysis of conversational discourse and found that older adults (65-90 yr) produced a higher percentage of incomplete ties compared with younger adults (30-59 yr) [45].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recovery of cohesion in narrative discourse after left-hemisphere stroke

Ellis¹,

Rosenbek²,

Rittman³

et al. 2005

JRRD

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Abstract-Little is known about the recovery of narrative discourse after stroke. While several studies have analyzed the recovery of language in individuals with aphasia, few known studies exist on the recovery of narrative discourse in stroke survivors, particularly those who have not been diagnosed with aphasia. In this study, we evaluated the cohesiveness of narrative discourse in a cohort of individuals who had suffered a left-hemisphere stroke and had not been diagnosed with expressive language impairment. We analyzed their narrative discourse at 1, 6, and 12 months poststroke. Our findings indicate that, while the mean number of cohesive ties in narrative discourse remained generally constant during the first year poststroke, the percentage correct use of cohesive ties increased significantly during the same time period. These findings suggest that subtle disruptions in expressive language can be present initially in narrative discourse, and recovery from these disruptions can occur naturally over time.

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“…Discourse analysis provides a promising avenue for exploring the behavioural changes that occur with dementia, as effective discourse production is the result of an interaction between complex cognitive processes such as attention, memory, and perception with language and world knowledge. Discourse deficits associated with AD that are described in the literature include: (1) empty speech (Hier et al, 1985;Kempler, 1995;Nicholas, Obler, Albert, & HelmEstabrooks, 1985); (2) fewer relevant units of information and reduced informational content (Appell et al, 1982;Bayles et al, 1985); (3) word finding and lexical retrieval difficulties, frequent circumlocutions, paraphasias (Hier et al, 1985;Kempler, 1995;Kirshner, Webb, & Kelly, 1984); (4) use of higher proportion of pronouns without antecedents (Hier et al, 1985;Kempler, 1995); (5) ideational perseveration (Bayles et al, 1985;Kempler, 1995); (6) reduced cohesion and coherence (Appell et al, 1982;Ripich & Terrell, 1988, Ripich et al, 1983, 1988); (7) poor topic maintenance and frequent topic shifting (Garcia & Joanette, 1994;Kempler, 1995;Ulatowska, Hayashi, Cannito, & Fleming, 1986); (8) excessive verbosity (Appell et al, 1982); and (9) difficulty with comprehension of abstract language (Kempler, 1995).…”

Section: Rationale For Discourse Assessment and Analysismentioning

confidence: 96%