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| The impact of the native language of Alzheimer's disease and normal elderly individuals on their ability to recall digits | | Author(s) | T Argüelles, D Loewenstein, S Argüelles |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 5, no 4, November 2001 |
| Pages | pp 358-365 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Cognitive processes ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Evaluation ; English language ; Spanish language ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Recent studies have indicated that Spanish-speaking Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients perform more poorly than English-speaking patients on the Digit Span sub-tests of the Weschler Adult Intelligence Scale - Revised (WAIS-R). In the current investigation, the performance of English- and Spanish-speaking AD patients (N=119) and a control group of 91 normal older people were compared for their capacity to remember digit strings of different lengths. Subjects were administered the standard version of the Digit Span test of the WAIS-R, and a modification of the test (chunking task) in which numbers were presented in pairs. Both English-speaking groups had significantly higher scores on all aspects of the standard Digit Span test relative to their Spanish-speaking counterparts. In contrast, English- and Spanish-speaking AD groups did not differ in performance on the 2-digit chunking task forward score; and both normal control groups performed similarly. The findings have implications for development of language appropriate cognitive tests for AD patients and normal older people. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-011210210 A |
| Classmark | EA: DA: DB: 4C: 6W6: 6WG: 7T |
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