Publications by authors named "Lorinda Kwan Chen Li Ying"
Alzheimers Dement
April 2024
Article Synopsis
- The study focused on primary progressive aphasia (PPA) in native Chinese speakers, highlighting the unique challenges posed by the classifier system in Chinese compared to Indo-European languages.
- Results showed that both semantic variant (sv) PPA and logopenic variant (lv) PPA patients struggled significantly with classifier production, with lvPPA patients performing better in recognition tasks.
- The findings indicate that classifier processing could serve as a linguistic marker for distinguishing between different PPA variants, with performance linked to specific brain regions involved in language and visual processing.
Article Synopsis
- * Researchers evaluated 40 PPA patients and 20 cognitively normal individuals through a Chinese dictation test (CLAP) and found that all PPA patients had significantly lower writing accuracy compared to controls, with no notable differences among the PPA variants.
- * The test exhibited high sensitivity and specificity for identifying PPA in Chinese speakers, and specific types of writing errors were linked to different PPA variants, correlating with certain brain regions essential for language processing.
Article Synopsis
- * This case report examines a Cantonese-speaking woman with nonfluent/agrammatic variant PPA (nfvPPA) and highlights her unique language deficits, including issues with tone production and perception.
- * The study emphasizes the need for language-specific diagnostic approaches to better identify PPA in non-English speakers, suggesting that tailored methods could improve diagnosis and understanding of this disorder in diverse linguistic groups.
