Animal Naming Performance in Korean Elderly: Effects of age, education, and gender, and Typicality

Kim, Jung Wan; Kim, HyangHee

doi:10.5392/ijoc.2012.8.3.026

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“…The names of these zodiac signs include various domestic animals (e.g., pig, dog, sheep, and horse) and wild animals (e.g., tiger, rabbit, monkey, and reptiles such as snake). Therefore, if more than four animal names belonging to the zodiac category were reported successively, they were counted as one cluster 18. More than two words were deemed to create a cluster, and so if a certain subcategory consisted of one word, we excluded it from the cluster count.…”

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Qualitative Comparison of Semantic Memory Impairment in Patients with Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment Based on β-Amyloid Status

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Background and PurposeSemantic memory remains more stable than episodic memory across the lifespan, which makes it potentially useful as a marker for distinguishing pathological aging from normal senescence. To obtain a better understanding of the transitional stage evolving into Alzheimer's dementia (AD), we focused on the amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) stage stratified based on β-amyloid (Aβ) pathology.MethodsWe analyzed the raw data from Korean version of the Boston Naming Test (K-BNT) and the Controlled Oral Word Association Test (COWAT). For K-BNT, the frequencies of six error types and accuracy rates were evaluated. For a qualitative assessment of the COWAT, we computed the number of switching, number of clusters, and mean cluster size.ResultsThe data from 217 participants were analyzed (53 normal controls, 66 with Aβ− aMCI, 56 with Aβ+ aMCI, and 42 disease controls). There were fewer semantically related errors and more semantically unrelated errors on the K-BNT in Aβ+ aMCI than in Aβ− aMCI, without a gross difference in the z score. We also found that Aβ+ aMCI showed a more prominent deficit in the number of clusters in the semantic fluency task [especially for animal names (living items)] than Aβ− aMCI.ConclusionsIn spite of similar clinical manifestations, Aβ+ aMCI was more similar to AD than Aβ− aMCI in terms of semantic memory disruption. Semantic memory may serve as an early indicator of brain Aβ pathology. Therefore, semantic memory dysfunction deserves more consideration in clinical practice. Longitudinal research with the follow-up data is needed.

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Qualitative Comparison of Semantic Memory Impairment in Patients with Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment Based on β-Amyloid Status

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Animals in multidimensional space: Interpreting coordinates throughout lexical-semantic features in mild cognitive impairment and control subjects

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Category Norms for Korean Adults Age 55 to 74

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Kang²,

Yoon³

2015

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This study seeks to provide preliminary data on the production frequency and typicality of noun exemplars by semantic category for Korean adults age 55 to 74. Methods: A total of 401 individuals participated in the study. The study was divided into two parts. In experiment 1 (N= 220), the subjects were given generative naming tasks from ten categories: clothing, kitchen utensils, personal belongings, vegetables, furniture, transportation, school supplies, electronic devices, flowers, and animals. In experiment 2 (N= 216), the mean number of production and number of different words of noun exemplars were evaluated. The semantic typicality of each noun exemplar obtained from experiment 1 was also rated. Results: The category of items in fluency tasks, along with age and gender has a distinctive influence on the semantic networks of adults age 55 to 74. Conclusion: Our findings suggest that age-specific Korean category norms and data for semantic typicality are needed. In addition, these results are clinically meaningful given that they provide preliminary data to select stimuli item for naming treatment programs of patients with neurogenic language disorders. This study also provides a basis for future study on the internal structure of semantic networks in Korean adults and the efficacy of semantic feature analysis in naming treatment.

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Animal Naming Performance in Korean Elderly: Effects of age, education, and gender, and Typicality

Abstract: The animal naming test (ANT) is known to be influenced not only by age

Cited by 4 publications

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Qualitative Comparison of Semantic Memory Impairment in Patients with Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment Based on β-Amyloid Status

Qualitative Comparison of Semantic Memory Impairment in Patients with Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment Based on β-Amyloid Status

Animals in multidimensional space: Interpreting coordinates throughout lexical-semantic features in mild cognitive impairment and control subjects

Category Norms for Korean Adults Age 55 to 74

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