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We included measures of speaking rate for comparison.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"S1355617725101677_as3\">\n                    <jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      We identified 13 studies evaluating pause measures and 8 studies of speaking rate in people with MCI (\n                      <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2019s = 276 &amp; 109, respectively) and AD (\n                      <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2019s = 170 &amp; 81, respectively) and healthy aged controls (\n                      <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2019s = 492 &amp; 231, respectively). Studies evaluated speech across various tasks, including standard neuropsychological, reading, and free\/conversational tasks. People with AD and MCI showed longer pauses than controls at approximately 1.20 and 0.62 standard deviations, respectively, though there was substantial heterogeneity across studies. A more modest effect, of 0.66 and 0.27\n                      <jats:italic>SD<\/jats:italic>\n                      s, was observed between these groups in speech rate. The largest effects were observed for standardized memory tasks.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"S1355617725101677_as4\">\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Of the many ways that speech can be objectified, pauses appear particularly important for understanding cognition in AD. Pause analysis has the benefit of being face valid, interpretable in ratio format as a reaction time, tied to known socio-cognitive functions, and relatively easy to measure, compute, and interpret. 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