Reading and writing habits compensate for aging effects in speech connectedness.
Bárbara Luzia Covatti MalcorraNatalia Bezerra MotaJanaina WeissheimerLucas P SchillingMaximiliano A WilsonLilian Cristine HübnerPublished in: NPJ science of learning (2022)
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.