Detecting Parkinson's disease and its cognitive phenotypes via automated semantic analyses of action stories

AM García, D Escobar-Grisales… - npj Parkinson's …, 2022 - nature.com
Action-concept outcomes are useful targets to identify Parkinson's disease (PD) patients and
differentiate between those with and without mild cognitive impairment (PD-MCI, PD-nMCI) …

Multimodal neurocognitive markers of naturalistic discourse typify diverse neurodegenerative diseases

A Birba, S Fittipaldi, JC Cediel Escobar… - Cerebral …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Neurodegeneration has multiscalar impacts, including behavioral, neuroanatomical, and
neurofunctional disruptions. Can disease-differential alterations be captured across such …

[HTML][HTML] Ecological meanings: A consensus paper on individual differences and contextual influences in embodied language

A Ibáñez, K Kühne, A Miklashevsky, E Monaco… - Journal of …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Embodied theories of cognition consider many aspects of language and other cognitive
domains as the result of sensory and motor processes. In this view, the appraisal and the …

Social concepts and the cerebellum: behavioural and functional connectivity signatures in cerebellar ataxic patients

P Lopes da Cunha, S Fittipaldi… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Neurocognitive research on social concepts underscores their reliance on fronto-temporo-
limbic regions mediating broad socio-cognitive skills. Yet, the field has neglected another …

Neurocognitive correlates of semantic memory navigation in Parkinson's disease

FD Toro-Hernández, J Migeot, N Marchant… - npj Parkinson's …, 2024 - nature.com
Cognitive studies on Parkinson's disease (PD) reveal abnormal semantic processing. Most
research, however, fails to indicate which conceptual properties are most affected and …

Impaired social concept processing in persons with autistic-like traits

A Birba, J López-Pigüi, I León Santana, AM García - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Situated models suggest that social concepts are grounded in interpersonal experience.
However, few studies have tested this notion experimentally, and none has targeted …

Predicting and characterizing neurodegenerative subtypes with multimodal neurocognitive signatures of social and cognitive processes

A Ibañez, S Fittipaldi, C Trujillo… - Journal of …, 2021 - content.iospress.com
Background: Social cognition is critically compromised across neurodegenerative diseases,
including the behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), Alzheimer's disease (AD) …

Multidimensional inhibitory signatures of sentential negation in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia

MN Díaz-Rivera, A Birba, S Fittipaldi, D Mola… - Cerebral …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Background Processing of linguistic negation has been associated to inhibitory brain
mechanisms. However, no study has tapped this link via multimodal measures in patients …

Automated text‐level semantic markers of Alzheimer's disease

C Sanz, F Carrillo, A Slachevsky… - Alzheimer's & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Automated speech analysis has emerged as a scalable, cost‐effective tool to
identify persons with Alzheimer's disease dementia (ADD). Yet, most research is …

Structural and functional motor-network disruptions predict selective action-concept deficits: Evidence from frontal lobe epilepsy

S Moguilner, A Birba, D Fino, R Isoardi… - Cortex, 2021 - Elsevier
Built on neurodegenerative lesions models, the disrupted motor grounding hypothesis
(DMGH) posits that motor-system alterations selectively impair action comprehension …