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Cognitive archaeology: uses, methods, and results

Cognitive archaeology: uses, methods, and results
Cognitive archaeology: uses, methods, and results
The earliest stages of cognitive decline in cases of slowly progressive dementia are difficult to pinpoint, yet detection of the preclinical period of the illness is likely to be of significant importance to understanding Alzheimer’s disease and other slowly progressive dementias at both clinical and biological levels. A number of authors have used retrospective analysis to describe preclinical linguistic decline in written texts and spoken language samples. This paper reviews the methods available for classifying and comparing such samples, and presents some exploratory analyses of historical texts derived from verbatim records of preclinical spoken activity. Change in the nature of the language used by Harold Wilson (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1964-970 and 1974-976) is quantified in the light of a later diagnosis of probable Alzheimer’s disease and historical uncertainties about his final months in office.
0911-6044
250-265
Garrard, Peter
9016944f-8766-4df5-83bc-5fda650bd22e
Garrard, Peter
9016944f-8766-4df5-83bc-5fda650bd22e

Garrard, Peter (2009) Cognitive archaeology: uses, methods, and results. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 22 (3), 250-265. (doi:10.1016/j.jneuroling.2008.07.006).

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The earliest stages of cognitive decline in cases of slowly progressive dementia are difficult to pinpoint, yet detection of the preclinical period of the illness is likely to be of significant importance to understanding Alzheimer’s disease and other slowly progressive dementias at both clinical and biological levels. A number of authors have used retrospective analysis to describe preclinical linguistic decline in written texts and spoken language samples. This paper reviews the methods available for classifying and comparing such samples, and presents some exploratory analyses of historical texts derived from verbatim records of preclinical spoken activity. Change in the nature of the language used by Harold Wilson (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1964-970 and 1974-976) is quantified in the light of a later diagnosis of probable Alzheimer’s disease and historical uncertainties about his final months in office.

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Published date: May 2009

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Local EPrints ID: 66522
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/66522
ISSN: 0911-6044
PURE UUID: db5d79ce-4008-4a94-b594-c0abf9c28c57

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Date deposited: 26 Jun 2009
Last modified: 13 Mar 2024 18:24

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Author: Peter Garrard

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