The influence of age of acquisition on recall and recognition in Alzheimer's patients and healthy ageing controls in Turkish. Issue 4 (4th July 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kilecioğlu, Elçin; Raman, Ilhan; Raman, Evren
• Is Part Of: Applied neuropsychology. Volume 29:Issue 4(2022)
• Page Start: 617
• Page End: 626
• Publication Date: 2022-07-04
• Subjects: Ageing -- age of acquisition -- Alzheimer's disease -- episodic memory -- recall -- recognition -- Turkish; Neuropsychology -- Periodicals; Cognition disorders -- Periodicals; Brain -- Diseases -- Diagnosis -- Periodicals; Brain -- Imaging -- Periodicals; Brain -- Diseases -- Treatment -- Periodicals; Diagnostic Imaging -- Periodicals; Neuropsychological Tests -- Periodicals; Adult; 616.8
• DOI: 10.1080/23279095.2020.1796668
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2327-9095

Abstract

Abstract: The current study set out to examine the influence of AoA on word recall and recognition tasks in 30 Alzheimer's patients and 28 healthy ageing control group. Each participant was presented with 20 words that critically varied on AoA. A subtest of WAIS-R was employed to establish the vocabulary capacity of participants together with the Mini-Mental State Examination. The pattern of results showed that healthy ageing adults outperformed Alzheimer's patients in recall and recognition tasks and that overall early acquired words had an advantage over late acquired words. The results have implications for developing assessment tools and are discussed within the current theories of age of acquisition and the impact of the neurodegenerative loss of memory in Alzheimer's disease on lexicosemantic processing.