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Degree of Bilingualism Predicts Age of Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease in Low-Education but Not in Highly Educated Hispanics
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Gollan, 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
Word Association in Early Alzheimer's Disease
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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