Discourse intervention strategies in Alzheimer's disease: Eye-tracking and the effect of visual cues in conversation

OBJECTIVE:The goal of this study was to investigate whether on-topic visual cues can serve as aids for the maintenance of discourse coherence and informativeness in autobiographical narratives of persons with Alzheimer's disease (AD).METHODS:The experiment consisted of three randomized conversa...

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Main Authors: Lenisa Brandão, Ana Maria Monção, Richard Andersson, Kenneth Holmqvist
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Neurologia Cognitiva e do Comportamento
Series:Dementia & Neuropsychologia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1980-57642014000300278&lng=en&tlng=en