Predicting elders’ cognitive flexibility from their language use
Man-Ying Wang, Yu-An Ko, Chin-Lan Huang, Jyun-Hong Chen, Te-Tien Ting
Abstract
This study recruited 51 elders aged 53-74 to discuss their daily activities in focus groups. The transcribed discourse was analyzed using the Chinese version of LIWC (Lin et al., 2020; Pennebaker et al., 2015) for cognitive complexity and dynamic language as well as content words related to elders’ daily activities. The interruption behavior during the conversation was also coded and analyzed. After controlling for education, gender and age, the results showed that cognitive flexibility performance was accompanied by the increasing adoption of dynamic language, insight words and family words. These findings serve as the basis for predicting elders’ cognitive flexibility through their daily language use.- Anthology ID:
- 2021.rocling-1.18
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 33rd Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2021)
- Month:
- October
- Year:
- 2021
- Address:
- Taoyuan, Taiwan
- Editors:
- Lung-Hao Lee, Chia-Hui Chang, Kuan-Yu Chen
- Venue:
- ROCLING
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- The Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (ACLCLP)
- Note:
- Pages:
- 132–137
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2021.rocling-1.18
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Man-Ying Wang, Yu-An Ko, Chin-Lan Huang, Jyun-Hong Chen, and Te-Tien Ting. 2021. Predicting elders’ cognitive flexibility from their language use. In Proceedings of the 33rd Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2021), pages 132–137, Taoyuan, Taiwan. The Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (ACLCLP).
- Cite (Informal):
- Predicting elders’ cognitive flexibility from their language use (Wang et al., ROCLING 2021)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/autopr/2021.rocling-1.18.pdf