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Heather Harris Wright1, Anthony D Koutsoftas, Gilson J Capilouto, Gerasimos Fergadiotis.
Abstract
The purpose of the present research was to examine the influence of cognitive processes on discourse global coherence ability measured across different discourse tasks and collected from younger (n = 40; 20-39 years) and older (n = 40; 70-87 years) cognitively healthy adults. Study participants produced oral language samples in response to five commonly used discourse elicitation tasks and they were analyzed for maintenance of global coherence. Participants also completed memory and attention measures. Group differences on the global coherence scale were found for only one type of discourse-recounts. Across discourse elicitation tasks the lowest global coherence scores were found for recounts compared to the other discourse elicitation tasks. The influence of cognitive processes on maintenance of global coherence differed for the two age groups. For the younger group, there were no observed significant relationships. For the older group, cognitive measures were related to global coherence of stories and procedures.Entities:
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Year: 2013 PMID： 23656430 PMCID： PMC3748174 DOI： 10.1080/13825585.2013.794894
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Neuropsychol Dev Cogn B Aging Neuropsychol Cogn ISSN： 1382-5585