Reading and writing habits compensate for aging effects in speech connectedness
Bárbara Luzia Covatti Malcorra, Natália Bezerra Mota, Janaína Weissheimer, Lucas Porcello Schilling, Maximiliano A. Wilson, Lilian Cristine Hübner
Abstract
We investigate the association of short- and long-range recurrences (speech connectedness) with age, education, and reading and writing habits (RWH) in typical aging using an oral narrative production task. Oral narrative transcriptions were represented as word-graphs to measure short- and long-range recurrences. Speech connectedness was explained by the combination of age, education, and RWH, and the strength of RWH's coefficient reflects the aging effect.
Topics & Concepts
Social connectednessReading (process)NarrativeTask (project management)PsychologyWord (group theory)Association (psychology)Cognitive psychologyLinguisticsSocial psychologyEconomicsManagementPhilosophyPsychotherapistNeurobiology of Language and BilingualismReading and Literacy DevelopmentAging and Gerontology Research