A Brief Digital Neuropsychological Protocol: III ‐ Using Artificial Intelligence to Measure Semantic Memory with the ‘Animal’ Fluency Test
David J. Libon, Rodney Swenson, Sean Tobyne, Catherine C. Price, Melissa Lamar, Stephanie Cosentino, Russell Banks, Ali Jannati, John Showalter, David Bates, Alvaro Pascual‐Leone · 2025
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David Libon and a large team of co-authors use artificial intelligence to score a word fluency test of semantic memory, in a study from 2025. Naming animals for one minute is a classic clinic task. Beyond the raw count, the links between one animal and the next carry information about how a person's store of knowledge is holding up.
Memory clinic patients took a short digital test battery. Clustering sorted them into normal, two forms of mild impairment, and dementia groups. Software measured the strength of association between successive animal names. Those scores were compared with a six word list learning test of memory. The authors aim to show that machine scoring of a one minute task can sharpen the sorting of memory disorders.
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| CREATOR | David J. Libon, Rodney Swenson, Sean Tobyne, Catherine C. Price, Melissa Lamar, Stephanie Cosentino, Russell Banks, Ali Jannati, John Showalter, David Bates, Alvaro Pascual‐Leone |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |