DementiaBank English Protocol Delaware Corpus

Alyssa Lanzi
Communication Sciences and Disorders
University of Delaware
lanzia@udel.edu
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Participants:	46 MCI and 24 neurotypical, data collection ongoing
Type of Study:	Discourse
Location:	USA
Media type:	audio
DOI:	doi:10.21415/Q0JX-5W20

Citation information

In accordance with TalkBank rules, any use of data from this corpus must be accompanied by at least one corpus reference.

Lanzi, A. M., Saylor, A. K., Fromm, D., Liu, H., MacWhinney, B., & Cohen, M. (2023). DementiaBank: Theoretical rationale, protocol, and illustrative analyses. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology.

Project Description

This work was supported by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders under grant R01DC008524-13S1 awarded to Brian MacWhinney.

A standard protocol is administered to participants with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and those without cognitive impairments.

The protocol includes:

Picture descriptions -- Cookie Theft, Cat Rescue, "Going and Coming" (Norman Rockwell)
Story narrative -- Cinderella*
Procedural narrative -- Peanut butter and jelly sandwich
Personal narrative -- Hometown

*NOTE: The standard administration for this task involves having the Participant first look through pictures from the Cinderella storybook to refresh their memory of the story. The pictures are then removed before the Participant tells the story. In some cases, however,the Participant was given the option of looking through the pictures and chose not to. These are the Participants who did NOT look through the Cinderella pictures prior to telling the story:
MCI: 5, 10, 14, 15, 20, 21, 27, 28, 31, 33, 40, 43
Neurotypical: 3, 8, 13, 24, 30, 34, 35, 36, 38, 39

Testing includes:

1. MoCA Blind/Telephone MoCA
Dawes P, Pye A, Reeves D, Yeung WK, Sheikh S, Thodi C, Charalambous AP, Gallant K, Nasreddine Z, Leroi I. Protocol for the development of versions of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) for people with hearing or vision impairment. BMJ Open. 2019 Mar 30;9(3):e026246. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-026246. PMID: 30928949; PMCID: PMC6475249.

2. Boston Naming Test-Short Form (BNT-SF; Kaplan, Goodglass, & Weintraub, 2001)

3. Multilingual Naming Test
Stasenko A, Jacobs DM, Salmon DP, & Gollan TH (2019). The Multilingual Naming Test (MINT) as a Measure of Picture Naming Ability in Alzheimer's Disease. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society :JINS, 25(8), 821–833. PMC free article
Gollan TH, Weissberger GH, Runnqvist E, Montoya RI, Cera CM (2012). Self-ratings of spoken language dominance: A Multi-Lingual Naming Test (MINT) and preliminary norms for young and aging Spanish-English bilinguals. Biling (Camb Engl), 15(3), 594–615. doi:10.1017/s1366728911000332 PMC free article.

The CHAT transcript ID header tier for the Participant includes the following information:

Generic -- @ID: language|corpus|PAR|age|sex|dxgroup||Participant||MOCA|
Example -- @ID: eng|Delaware|PAR|84;00.|female|MCI||Participant||25|

Complete demographic and test data are available in a spreadsheet in the downloadable transcript folder.