Is there a Grammatical Comprehension Deficit in Multidomain Mild Cognitive Impairment?
Autor
López-Higes, Ramón; Departamento de Psicología Básica II (Procesos cognitivos)
Facultad de Psicología
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Montejo, Pedro; Centro de Prevención del Deterioro Cognitivo. Madrid Salud. Ayuntamiento de Madrid.
Prados, José María; Departamento de Psicología Basica II. Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Montenegro, Mercedes; Centro de Prevención del Deterioro Cognitivo. Madrid Salud. Ayuntamiento de Madrid.
Lozano, Montserrat; Centro de Prevención del Deterioro Cognitivo. Madrid Salud. Ayuntamiento de Madrid.
Institución
Resumen
Multidomain mild Cognitive Impairment (mMCI) patients have similar difficulties than those observed in the initial stages of Alzheimer disease. Many studies have explored language abilities in MCI, but few have focused in grammatical comprehension. This study explores the differences between mMCI patients and controls using a complete neuropsychological battery, it tries to discover if vocabulary and grammatical comprehension in both groups are predicted by naming and verbal fluency, and seeks the best subset of sentence structures to classify the subjects. There were significative differences between groups in verbs and in grammatical comprehension. Linear regression revealed that verb and sentence comprehension are independent of naming and verbal fluency performance in mMCI patients. In the control group verb comprehension is predicted by intrusions in verbal fluency, and the comprehension of sentences containing two propositions seems to be related to control processes and recognition errors. Two sentence structures, both not fitted to syntactic canonical order in Spanish, are especially useful for subjects’ classification. mMCI patients have a specific deficit affecting grammatical comprehension that doesn’t seem to depend on their low performance at lexical-semantic level. In healthy elders, verb and grammatical comprehension are related to control processes.
Ítems relacionados
Mostrando ítems relacionados por Título, autor o materia.
-
Análisis de procesos cognitivos en el comportamiento de estudiantes de último curso de bachillerato y primer curso de carrera involucrados en tareas de clasificación, cálculo, memorización y categorización de información
Martínez Comeche, Juan Antonio; Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España.; Horcas Pulido, Jorge; Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España.; Piña Landaburu, Zuriñe; Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España. -
El deterioro cognitivo en adultos mayores : una investigación documental para su comprensión y estudio
Gil Madrid, Vanessa (2014) -
Use of Exposure Techniques in a Psychology Clinic
Gómez Mirón, Laura; Clínica Universitaria de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Bernaldo-de-Quirós, Mónica; Departamento de Psicología Clínica, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Labrador, Francisco J.; Departamento de Psicología Clínica, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Fernández-Arias, Ignacio; Clínica Universitaria de Psicología. Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Estupiñá, Francisco J.; Clínica Universitaria de Psicología. Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Blanco, Carmen; Clínica Universitaria de Psicología. Universidad Complutense de Madrid