Publications by authors named "N Auclair-Ouellet"

Having a detailed description of the psycholinguistic properties of a language is essential for conducting well-controlled language experiments. However, there is a paucity of databases for some languages and regional varieties, including Québec French. The SyllabO+ corpus was created to provide a complete phonological and syllabic analysis of a corpus of spoken Québec French.

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Introduction: Parkinson's Disease (PD) commonly affects cognition and communicative functions, including the ability to perceive socially meaningful cues from nonverbal behavior and spoken language (e.g., a speaker's tone of voice).

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Objective: Anomia is usually assessed using picture-naming tests. While many tests evaluate anomia for nouns, very few tests have been specifically designed for verb anomia. This article presents the DVAQ-30, a new naming test for detecting verb anomia in adults and elderly people.

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Mental time travel and language enable us to go back and forth in time and to organize and express our personal experiences through time reference. People with Alzheimer's disease have both mental time travel and time reference impairments, which can greatly impact their daily communication. Currently, little is known about the potential relationship between time conceptualization (i.

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Article Synopsis
  • Mild behavioral impairment (MBI) is a syndrome found in older adults that indicates a risk for cognitive decline and dementia, especially in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD).
  • A study involving fMRI scans showed that PD patients with MBI (PD-MBI) had reduced brain activity in key areas responsible for cognitive function compared to those without MBI (PD-noMBI) and healthy controls.
  • The findings imply that MBI in PD patients may indicate problems in both the brain's control networks and memory systems, which could help in understanding cognitive performance linked to MBI.
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