APROCSA dataset

An open dataset of connected speech in aphasia with consensus ratings of auditory-perceptual features

Zoe Ezzes, Sarah M. Schneck, Marianne Casilio, Davida Fromm, Antje S. Mefford, Michael de Riesthal, Stephen M. Wilson

Language Neuroscience Laboratory
Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Video 1. Audiovisual recording of participant 1738.
1738 transcript

Video 2. Audiovisual recording of participant 1944.
1944 transcript

Video 3. Audiovisual recording of participant 1713.
1713 transcript

Video 4. Audiovisual recording of participant 1554.
1554 transcript

Video 5. Audiovisual recording of participant 1833.
1833 transcript

Video 6. Audiovisual recording of participant 1731.
1731 transcript

**Table 1.** Demographic, neurological, and behavioral characteristics of the participants
	1738	1944	1713	1554	1833	1731
Age	72	71	63	46	67	48
Sex	M	F	F	F	M	M
Handedness	R	R	R	R	A	R
Education (years)	14	16	14	15	14	18
Race	W	B	W	W	W	W
Time post onset (months)	120	151	23	35	18	52
Stroke etiology	I	I	I	I	H	I
Lesion extent (cm³)	147.2	51.1	29.2*	17.8	9.7*	218.6
Quick Aphasia Battery
Word comprehension	9.38	10.00	10.00	10.00	10.00	8.54
Sentence comprehension	9.38	8.13	9.58	9.58	7.71	2.71
Word finding	7.00	5.50	9.00	8.00	7.00	1.50
Grammatical construction	7.75	7.13	7.50	5.13	5.75	0.75
Speech motor programming	5.00	7.50	7.50	7.50	7.50	5.00
Repetition	7.50	8.75	9.17	7.08	7.92	4.58
Reading	7.50	9.17	9.17	8.75	7.92	0.83
Overall	7.72	7.69	8.84	7.96	7.52	3.74

M = Male; F = Female; R = Right; A = Ambidextrous; W = White; B = Black; I = Ischemic; H = Hemorrhagic; * = Acute lesion extent.

**Table 2.** Consensus ratings of APROCSA features for the 6 participants
Feature	1738	1944	1713	1554	1833	1731
Anomia	1	3	2	2	2	3
Abandoned utterances	0	2	1	1	2	1
Empty speech	0	2	0	1	1	1
Semantic paraphasias	0	0	1	1	1	2
Phonemic paraphasias	0	0	1	0	0	1
Neologisms	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jargon	0	0	0	0	0	0
Perseverations	0	0	0	0	0	1
Stereotypies and automatisms	0	0	0	0	0	2
Short and simplified utterances	0	1	0	2	1	4
Omission of bound morphemes	0	1	1	1	0	3
Omission of function words	0	0	1	2	2	4
Paragrammatism	1	1	1	1	1	1
Pauses between utterances	1	2	0	2	1	1
Pauses within utterances	2	3	2	2	2	2
Halting and effortful	2	1	1	1	1	2
Reduced speech rate	2	3	1	2	2	2
Retracing	1	3	1	1	2	1
False starts	1	2	1	1	2	1
Conduite d’approche	1	0	1	0	1	0
Target unclear	1	1	0	0	0	1
Meaning unclear	1	1	0	1	1	3
Off-topic	0	0	0	0	0	1
Expressive aphasia	1	2	1	2	2	3
Apraxia of speech	2	1	1	1	1	2
Dysarthria	1	0	0	0	0	0
Overall communication impairment	2	2	1	2	2	3
Sample duration (total; min:sec)	39:07	56:50	36:15	58:03	46:22	74:26
Sample duration (analyzed; min:sec)	6:56	6:02	5:54	8:48	7:20	7:23

0: Not present; 1: Mild; 2: Moderate; 3: Marked; 4: Severe. See Casilio et al. (2019) for detailed definitions of connected speech features and scores.