@inproceedings{lindsay-etal-2021-dissociating,
title = "Dissociating Semantic and Phonemic Search Strategies in the Phonemic Verbal Fluency Task in early Dementia",
author = {Lindsay, Hali and
M{\"u}ller, Philipp and
Linz, Nicklas and
Zeghari, Radia and
Magued Mina, Mario and
Konig, Alexandra and
Tr{\"o}ger, Johannes},
editor = "Goharian, Nazli and
Resnik, Philip and
Yates, Andrew and
Ireland, Molly and
Niederhoffer, Kate and
Resnik, Rebecca",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology: Improving Access",
month = jun,
year = "2021",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.clpsych-1.4",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.clpsych-1.4",
pages = "32--44",
abstract = "Effective management of dementia hinges on timely detection and precise diagnosis of the underlying cause of the syndrome at an early mild cognitive impairment (MCI) stage. Verbal fluency tasks are among the most often applied tests for early dementia detection due to their efficiency and ease of use. In these tasks, participants are asked to produce as many words as possible belonging to either a semantic category (SVF task) or a phonemic category (PVF task). Even though both SVF and PVF share neurocognitive function profiles, the PVF is typically believed to be less sensitive to measure MCI-related cognitive impairment and recent research on fine-grained automatic evaluation of VF tasks has mainly focused on the SVF. Contrary to this belief, we show that by applying state-of-the-art semantic and phonemic distance metrics in automatic analysis of PVF word productions, in-depth conclusions about production strategy of MCI patients are possible. Our results reveal a dissociation between semantically- and phonemically-guided search processes in the PVF. Specifically, we show that subjects with MCI rely less on semantic- and more on phonemic processes to guide their word production as compared to healthy controls (HC). We further show that semantic similarity-based features improve automatic MCI versus HC classification by 29{\%} over previous approaches for the PVF. As such, these results point towards the yet underexplored utility of the PVF for in-depth assessment of cognition in MCI.",
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%T Dissociating Semantic and Phonemic Search Strategies in the Phonemic Verbal Fluency Task in early Dementia
%A Lindsay, Hali
%A Müller, Philipp
%A Linz, Nicklas
%A Zeghari, Radia
%A Magued Mina, Mario
%A Konig, Alexandra
%A Tröger, Johannes
%Y Goharian, Nazli
%Y Resnik, Philip
%Y Yates, Andrew
%Y Ireland, Molly
%Y Niederhoffer, Kate
%Y Resnik, Rebecca
%S Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology: Improving Access
%D 2021
%8 June
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Online
%F lindsay-etal-2021-dissociating
%X Effective management of dementia hinges on timely detection and precise diagnosis of the underlying cause of the syndrome at an early mild cognitive impairment (MCI) stage. Verbal fluency tasks are among the most often applied tests for early dementia detection due to their efficiency and ease of use. In these tasks, participants are asked to produce as many words as possible belonging to either a semantic category (SVF task) or a phonemic category (PVF task). Even though both SVF and PVF share neurocognitive function profiles, the PVF is typically believed to be less sensitive to measure MCI-related cognitive impairment and recent research on fine-grained automatic evaluation of VF tasks has mainly focused on the SVF. Contrary to this belief, we show that by applying state-of-the-art semantic and phonemic distance metrics in automatic analysis of PVF word productions, in-depth conclusions about production strategy of MCI patients are possible. Our results reveal a dissociation between semantically- and phonemically-guided search processes in the PVF. Specifically, we show that subjects with MCI rely less on semantic- and more on phonemic processes to guide their word production as compared to healthy controls (HC). We further show that semantic similarity-based features improve automatic MCI versus HC classification by 29% over previous approaches for the PVF. As such, these results point towards the yet underexplored utility of the PVF for in-depth assessment of cognition in MCI.
%R 10.18653/v1/2021.clpsych-1.4
%U https://aclanthology.org/2021.clpsych-1.4
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.clpsych-1.4
%P 32-44
Markdown (Informal)
[Dissociating Semantic and Phonemic Search Strategies in the Phonemic Verbal Fluency Task in early Dementia](https://aclanthology.org/2021.clpsych-1.4) (Lindsay et al., CLPsych 2021)
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