The clinical hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a gradual decline in cognitive function.
For the majority of patients the initial symptom is an impairment in episodic memory, ie, the …

Background: During the course of Alzheimer's disease (AD), cognitive processes, including
language and communication, become increasingly impaired. The aim of this review was to …

Background: Studies of connected speech of individuals with Alzheimer's disease (AD)
report significant impairments relative to the language of cognitively intact participants …

In recent years there has been a burgeoning interest in the use of computational methods to
distinguish between elicited speech samples produced by patients with dementia, and those …

Semantic deficits are common in individuals with Alzheimer's disease (AD). These deficits
notably impact the ability to understand words. In healthy aging, semantic knowledge …

Background: Studies of productive language in Alzheimer's disease (AD) have focused on
formal testing of syntax and semantics but have directed less attention to naturalistic …

Abstract The Semantic Verbal Fluency (SVF) test entails the generation of words from a
given category within a pre-set time of 60 seconds. Objectives: To verify whether socio …

Studies of word production in patients with Alzheimer's disease have identified the age of
acquisition of words as an important predictor of retention or loss, with early acquired words …

Consensus recommendations for three variants of primary progressive aphasia (PPA), the
non-fluent/agrammatic, logopenic and semantic variants, were published in 2011 [Gorno …

Impairments of word recognition in A lzheimer's disease (AD) have been less widely
investigated than impairments affecting word retrieval and production. In particular, we know …