SENTENCE COMPREHENSION IN PATIENTS WITH ALZHEIMERS-DISEASE

被引:110
作者
ROCHON, E
WATERS, GS
CAPLAN, D
机构
[1] MCGILL UNIV, SCH COMMUN SCI & DISORDERS, MONTREAL H3G 1A8, PQ, CANADA
[2] MASSACHUSETTS GEN HOSP, DEPT NEUROL, NEUROPSYCHOL LAB, BOSTON, MA 02114 USA
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D O I
10.1006/brln.1994.1018
中图分类号
R36 [病理学]; R76 [耳鼻咽喉科学];
学科分类号
100104 ; 100213 ;
摘要
Twenty-three early-stage dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT) patients and twenty-three control subjects were tested on a sentence-picture matching test containing nine different sentence types representing different levels of syntactic complexity. Subjects chose between drawings depicting a target sentence and a syntactic foil. Results indicated that DAT patients differed from control subjects on four of the nine sentence types. Performance of the patients was not poorer for sentences that were syntactically more complex, but was poorer for sentences that had two propositions as compared to one. Results are discussed in terms of a postinterpretive processing impairment in sentence comprehension in DAT. © 1994 Academic Press, Inc.
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页码:329 / 349
页数:21
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