Prosody Analysis as a Tool for Differential Diagnosis of Cognitive Impairment

Chorong Oh; Richard J. Morris; Xianhui Wang

doi:10.1121/2.0001709

Prosody Analysis as a Tool for Differential Diagnosis of Cognitive Impairment

Chorong Oh
, Richard J. Morris
, Xianhui Wang

Communication Sciences and Disorders

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Abstract

This study was conducted to determine whether acoustic analysis of speech prosody can assist in differential diagnosis of cognitive impairment. Speech samples describing the Cookie Theft picture were obtained from the DementiaBank and analyzed acoustically using 22 speech prosody features via the Praat software. Included in this speech dataset were 10 people with dementia of the Alzheimer’s type, 9 people with mild cognitive impairment, 5 people with vascular dementia, and 10 neurologically healthy controls. The principal components analysis, and Mahalonabis distance tests revealed that using acoustic measures of speech prosody may be a functional method for differential diagnosis of the cognitive impairment types.

Original language	English
Article number	060001
Journal	Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics
Volume	50
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001709
State	Published - Dec 5 2022
Event	183rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, ASA 2022 - Nashville, United States Duration: Dec 5 2022 → Dec 9 2022

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This study was supported by the Ohio University Research Committee grant.

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University Research Committee, Emory University

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