Purpose This review was designed to provide a systematic overview of prosody in people
with a primary diagnosis of dementia (PwD) and evaluate the potential use of prosodic …

Diagnosing different types of cognitive impairment is challenging and often requires invasive
and/or expensive biomarker tests1. These problems are known to delay the identification of …

Introduction This pilot research was designed to investigate if prosodic features from running
spontaneous speech could differentiate dementia of the Alzheimer's type (DAT), vascular …

Objective: Prosody, an important aspect of spoken language, is defined as the emphasis
placed on certain syllables, changes in tempo or timing, and variance in pitch and …

Purpose In this study, the authors investigated emotional prosody in patients with moderate
Dementia of the Alzheimer's type (DAT) With Late Onset. It was expected that both …

Introduction Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that
affects approximately 1%–2% of individuals aged 60 and above. Communication disorders …

Background Emotion recognition (ER) plays a crucial role in interpersonal communication.
Evaluation of emotions comprises recognition of facial expressions, gestures and of prosody …

Previous research has demonstrated impairment in comprehension of emotional prosody in
individuals diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (AD). The present pilot study further …

Prosody is defined as the melodic line of language. In this study we included 25 patients
with probable Alzheimer''s disease and 14 with multi-infarct dementia for a comparative …

This paper presents a novel approach for early detection of cognitive impairment in the
elderly. Our approach incorporates the use of speech sound analysis and multivariate …