AI RESEARCH
Beyond Binary: Speech Representations Across the Cognitive Score Hierarchy
arXiv CS.LG
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ArXi:2605.27189v1 Announce Type: cross This study examines the relationship between speech representations and the hierarchical structure of cognitive assessment in mild cognitive impairment. Utilizing 5,754 German neuropsychological assessment recordings, we evaluate six cognitive tasks across three score levels: task, domain, and global levels. We compare hand-crafted acoustic features with self-supervised learning (SSL) embeddings. Results show that although SSL representations generally outperform hand-crafted features at lower levels, this trend reverses for MCI classification.