Name agreement, frequency and age of acquisition, but not grammatical class, affect object and action naming in Spanish speaking participants with Alzheimer's disease

Rodriguez-Ferreiro, Javier and Davies, Robert and Gonzalez-Nosti, Maria and Barbon, Analia and Cuetos, Fernando (2009) Name agreement, frequency and age of acquisition, but not grammatical class, affect object and action naming in Spanish speaking participants with Alzheimer's disease. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 22 (1). pp. 37-54. ISSN 0911-6044

Full text not available from this repository.

Abstract

We investigated picture naming in Spanish-speaking patients with probable Alzheimer's disease using coloured line drawings of actions and objects matched on several key psycholinguistic variables. The patients were less accurate than healthy controls but we found no significant evidence for an effect of grammatical class. Generalized linear mixed-effects analyses indicated that patient naming accuracy was affected by lexical frequency and age of acquisition, and by the name agreement of the pictures. These observations support the view that, while the effect of grammatical class is not an important influence, accurate picture naming in dementia is determined by the impact of lesions on a lexico-semantic mapping structured by experience. (c) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Journal of Neurolinguistics
Uncontrolled Keywords:
/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3310
Subjects:
?? alzheimerobjectsspeech productionadrda work groupage of acquisitionpure anomiasemantic networksmatter lossvoxel-based morphometryactionsbasic-levelclinical-diagnosisfrequencyvanderwart pictureslexical accesspicture naminglinguistics and languagecognitive ??
ID Code:
64206
Deposited By:
Deposited On:
30 Apr 2013 10:35
Refereed?:
Yes
Published?:
Published
Last Modified:
15 Jul 2024 13:53