Age-related Cognitive Decline Leads to Greater Entropic Descriptiveness as Measured in Connected Speech Tasks Within Biomarker-negative Cognitively Normal Individuals (S18.003)

Speech production is complex and requires an equally complex array of cognitive processes to work in concert, resulting in age-related difficulties as these processes slow. We aim to use speech behavior in connected speech tasks, including picture descriptions and open-ended responses, to measure the continuous trajectory of decline and examine language changes due to aging.