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What Drives Task Performance During Animal Fluency in People With Alzheimer's Disease?

Title
What Drives Task Performance During Animal Fluency in People With Alzheimer's Disease?
Authors
Rofes, Adriade Aguiar, VaniaJonkers, RoelOh, Se JinDeDe, GayleSung, Jee Eun
Ewha Authors
성지은
SCOPUS Author ID
성지은scopus
Issue Date
2020
Journal Title
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
ISSN
1664-1078JCR Link
Citation
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY vol. 11
Keywords
fluencycategoryanimalswitchesclustersage of acquisition
Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
Indexed
SSCI; SCOPUS WOS scopus
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Background Animal fluency is a widely used task to assess people with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other neurological disorders. The mechanisms that drive performance in this task are argued to rely on language and executive functions. However, there is little information regarding what specific aspects of these cognitive processes drive performance on this task. Objective To understand which aspects of language (i.e., semantics, phonological output lexicon, phonological assembly) and executive function (i.e., mental set shifting; information updating and monitoring; inhibition of possible responses) are involved in the performance of animal fluency in people with AD. Methods Animal fluency data from 58 people with probable AD from the DementiaBank Pittsburgh Corpus were analyzed. Number of clusters and switches were measured and nine word properties (e.g., frequency, familiarity) for each of the correct words (i.e., each word counting toward the total score, disregarding non-animals and repetitions) were determined. Random forests were used to understand which variables predicted the total number of correct words, and conditional inference trees were used to search for interactions between the variables. Finally, Wilcoxon tests were implemented to cross-validate the results, by comparing the performance of participants with scores below the norm in animal fluency against participants with scores within the norm based on a large normative sample. Results Switches and age of acquisition emerged as the most important variables to predict total number of correct words in animal fluency in people with AD. Cross-validating the results, people with AD whose animal fluency scores fell below the norm produced fewer switches and words with lower age of acquisition than people with AD with scores in the normal range. Conclusion The results indicate that people with AD rely on executive functioning (information updating and monitoring) and language (phonological output lexicon, not necessarily semantics) to produce words on animal fluency.
DOI
10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01485
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