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Individuals With Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease Benefit From Audiovisual Speech Cues and Supportive Sentence Context

Authors: Alexandre Chauvin


Affiliations

1 Department of Psychology/Centre for Research in Human Development, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
2 Centre for Research on Brain, Language and Music, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
3 School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
4 Bloomfield Centre for Research in Aging, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Montréal, Québec, Canada.

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Purpose Speech perception in noise becomes difficult with age but can be facilitated by audiovisual (AV) speech cues and sentence context in healthy older adults. However, individuals with Alzheimer's disease (AD) may present with deficits in AV integration, potentially limiting the extent to which they can benefit from AV cues. This study investigated the benefit of these cues in individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), individuals with AD, and healthy older adult controls. Method This...

Links

PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33861623/

DOI: 10.1044/2021_JSLHR-20-00402