Anoushka is a student at Nueva, also the host of Project80, among other things.

DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2020.607449

One-Liner

oral lexical retrieval works better than qualitative narrative analysis to classify dementia; and semantic fluency + Disfluency features chucked on an SVM returns pretty good results.

Novelty

Tried two different assays of measuring linguistic ability: oral lexical retrieval metrics, and qualitative discourse features analysis of speech.

Notable Methods

• Subjects divided into three groups

  • Great cog. decline
  • Impaired but stable
  • Healthy controls

• Administered BNT and SVF tests as baseline

  

Key Figs

Table 3

This figure tells us that the percentages of unrelated utterances was a statistically significant metric to figure differences between the three experimental groups.