Using AphasiaBank for Discourse Assessment

Fromm, Davida; Forbes, Margaret; Holland, Audrey L.; MacWhinney, Brian

doi:10.1055/s-0039-3399499

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“…Processing and production of prosodic information in spoken language was assessed using the Aprosodia Battery (Ross and Monnot, 2011). Narrative abilities were assessed with the Discourse Production Test (DPT; Fromm et al, 2020), which requires participants to tell a story depicted in pictures, retell the story of Cinderella, and describe how to make a peanut-butter and jelly sandwich. Additional language measures were administered to PWAs only and included the WAB-R (Kertesz, 2006) to assess overall aphasia severity, the Boston Naming Test (BNT; Kaplan et al, 2001) to assess anomia severity, and a shortened version of the Discourse Comprehension Test (DCT; Brookshire and Nicholas, 1997).…”

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Spectral Resting-State EEG (rsEEG) in Chronic Aphasia Is Reliable, Sensitive, and Correlates With Functional Behavior

Dalton

Cavanagh

Richardson

2021

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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We investigated spectral resting-state EEG in persons with chronic stroke-induced aphasia to determine its reliability, sensitivity, and relationship to functional behaviors. Resting-state EEG has not yet been characterized in this population and was selected given the demonstrated potential of resting-state investigations using other neuroimaging techniques to guide clinical decision-making. Controls and persons with chronic stroke-induced aphasia completed two EEG recording sessions, separated by approximately 1 month, as well as behavioral assessments of language, sensorimotor, and cognitive domains. Power in the classic frequency bands (delta, theta, alpha, and beta) was examined via spectral analysis of resting-state EEG data. Results suggest that power in the theta, alpha, and beta bands is reliable for use as a repeated measure. Significantly greater theta and lower beta power was observed in persons with aphasia (PWAs) than controls. Finally, in PWAs theta power negatively correlated with performance on a discourse informativeness measure, while alpha and beta power positively correlated with performance on the same measure. This indicates that spectral rsEEG slowing observed in PWAs in the chronic stage is pathological and suggests a possible avenue for directly altering brain activation to improve behavioral function. Taken together, these results suggest that spectral resting-state EEG holds promise for sensitive measurement of functioning and change in persons with chronic aphasia. Future studies investigating the utility of these measures as biomarkers of frank or latent aphasic deficits and treatment response in chronic stroke-induced aphasia are warranted.

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Spectral Resting-State EEG (rsEEG) in Chronic Aphasia Is Reliable, Sensitive, and Correlates With Functional Behavior

Dalton

Cavanagh

Richardson

2021

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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“…Data for this study were drawn from the Mandarin protocol of the AphasiaBank database located in the TalkBank System (Chen et al., 2018; Deng et al., 2021). AphasiaBank is a shared database that offers researchers a large corpus with a definitive goal to improve the treatment of aphasia by comparing discourse natures from patients with aphasia and individuals without aphasia (Fromm et al., 2020; MacWhinney & Fromm, 2016; MacWhinney et al., 2011; Sharma et al., 2019). The database emphasizes the collection of data based on a specified elicitation protocol that requires the investigator to follow a script for asking questions and eliciting narratives, which offers multimedia information including transcripts of discourse by specific tasks (Fromm et al., 2020; MacWhinney, 2019; MacWhinney & Fromm, 2016).…”

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Applying core lexicon analysis in patients with anomic aphasia: Based on Mandarin AphasiaBank

Jiang

Liao

Liu

2023

Intl J Lang & Comm Disor

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BackgroundPatients with anomic aphasia experience difficulties in narrative processing. General discourse measures are time consuming and require necessary skills. Core lexicon analysis has been proposed as an effort‐saving approach but has not been developed in Mandarin discourse.AimsThis exploratory study was aimed (1) to apply core lexicon analysis in Mandarin patients with anomic aphasia at the discourse level and (2) to verify the problems with core words among people with anomic aphasia.Methods & ProcedureThe core nouns and verbs were extracted from narrative language samples from 88 healthy participants. The production of core words for 12 anomic aphasia and 12 age‐ and education‐matched controls were then calculated and compared. The correlation between the percentages and the Aphasia Quotients of the revised Western Aphasia Battery was analyzed as well.Outcomes & ResultsThe core nouns and verbs were successfully extracted. Patients with anomic aphasia produced fewer core words than healthy people, and the percentages differed significantly in different tasks as well as word classes. There was no correlation between the core lexicon use and the severity of aphasia in patients with anomic aphasia.Conclusions & ImplicationsCore lexicon analysis may potentially serve as a clinician‐friendly manner of quantifying core words produced at the discourse level in Mandarin patients with anomic aphasia.WHAT THIS PAPER ADDSWhat is already known on the subject Discourse analyses in aphasia assessment and treatment have increasingly garnered attention. Core lexicon analysis based on English AphasiaBank has been reported in recent years. It is correlated with microlinguistic and macrolinguistic measures in aphasia narratives. Nevertheless, the application based on Mandarin AphasiaBank is still under development in healthy individuals and patients with anomic aphasia.What this paper adds to existing knowledge A Mandarin core lexicon set was developed for different tasks. The feasibility of core lexicon analysis to evaluate the corpus of patients with anomic aphasia was preliminarily discussed and the speech performance of patients and healthy people was then compared to provide a reference for the evaluation and treatment of clinical aphasia corpus.What are the potential or actual clinical implications of this work? The purpose of this exploratory study was to consider the potential use of core lexicon analysis to evaluate core word production in narrative discourse. Moreover, normative and aphasia data were provided for comparison to develop clinical use for Mandarin patients with anomic aphasia.

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“…This evidence will allow clinicians to judge the utility of these discourse measures for routine clinical practice. Combined with the resources provided by others in this issue, 49,51,68,76 clinicians should be well positioned to begin using non-transcription based discourse analysis in their clinical practice.…”

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“…An update of AphasiaBank resources is available in this issue. 49 Among these is a dedicated web page for publications and discourse measures using AphasiaBank data (aphasia.talkbank.org/ discourse/). Through AphasiaBank, clinicians have access to standardized elicitation protocols, standardized measures with scoring information, and normative data that can aid in clinical utilization.…”

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Moving Toward Non-transcription based Discourse Analysis in Stable and Progressive Aphasia

2019

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Measurement of communication ability at the discourse level holds promise for predicting how well persons with stable (e.g., stroke-induced), or progressive aphasia navigate everyday communicative interactions. However, barriers to the clinical utilization of discourse measures have persisted. Recent advancements in the standardization of elicitation protocols and the existence of large databases for development of normative references have begun to address some of these barriers. Still, time remains a consistently reported barrier by clinicians. Non-transcription based discourse measurement would reduce the time required for discourse analysis, making clinical utilization a reality. The purpose of this article is to present evidence regarding discourse measures (main concept analysis, core lexicon, and derived efficiency scores) that are well suited to non-transcription based analysis. Combined with previous research, our results suggest that these measures are sensitive to changes following stroke or neurodegenerative disease. Given the evidence, further research specifically assessing the reliability of these measures in clinical implementation is warranted.

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Using AphasiaBank for Discourse Assessment

Cited by 11 publications

References 29 publications

Spectral Resting-State EEG (rsEEG) in Chronic Aphasia Is Reliable, Sensitive, and Correlates With Functional Behavior

Spectral Resting-State EEG (rsEEG) in Chronic Aphasia Is Reliable, Sensitive, and Correlates With Functional Behavior

Applying core lexicon analysis in patients with anomic aphasia: Based on Mandarin AphasiaBank

Moving Toward Non-transcription based Discourse Analysis in Stable and Progressive Aphasia

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