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Direct linkGollan, Tamar H.; Salmon, David P.; Montoya, Rosa I.; Galasko, Douglas R. – Neuropsychologia, 2011
The current study investigated the relationship between bilingual language proficiency and onset of probable Alzheimer's disease (AD) in 44 Spanish-English bilinguals at the UCSD Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. Degree of bilingualism along a continuum was measured using Boston Naming Test (BNT) scores in each language. Higher degrees of…
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Language Proficiency, Bilingualism, Predictor Variables
Gollan, Tamar H.; Salmon, David P.; Montoya, Rosa I.; da Pena, Eileen – Neuropsychologia, 2010
The current study tested the assumption that bilinguals with dementia regress to using primarily the dominant language. Spanish-English bilinguals with probable Alzheimer's disease (AD; n = 29), and matched bilingual controls (n = 42) named Boston Naming Test pictures in their dominant and nondominant languages. Surprisingly, differences between…
Descriptors: Language Dominance, Semantics, Alzheimers Disease, Language Tests
Gollan, Tamar H.; Salmon, David P.; Paxton, Jessica L. – Brain and Language, 2006
The hypothesis that Alzheimer's disease (AD) degrades semantic representations predicts that AD qualitatively alters spontaneous thoughts. In two experiments contrasting free associations to words with strong (e.g., "bride-groom") versus weak (e.g., "body-leg") associates participants with AD produced less common responses (e.g., "bride-pretty")…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Alzheimers Disease, Semantics, Experimental Psychology
