摘要：Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) refers to a condition often seen as prodromal for dementia(Chertkow, 2002). The linguistic features of this group are still under investigation. Previous studiesrevealed disturbances at the lexical-semantic level (Taler & Jarema, 2004; 2006; Duong et al, 2006)reflecting an impaired semantic network. We examined aspects of both controlled (off-line) andautomatic (on-line) lexical processing in MCI by looking at patients’ performance in pseudo-wordswhich appear to violate different constraints of Slovenian word-formation. The goal is to presentdata regarding the boundaries of lexical representations and their decay in this population, thuscontributing to the establishment of the nature of linguistic deficits in MCI.
