Age acquisition norms from elderly Spanish people: characteristics and the prediction of word recognition performance in Alzheimer’s disease

• Fernando Cuetos ^[1] ; Tamara Samartino ^[1] ; Andrew W. Ellis ^[2]
  1. [1] Universidad de Oviedo

     Universidad de Oviedo

     Oviedo, España

     
  2. [2] University of York

     University of York

     Reino Unido

     
• Localización: Psicológica: Revista de metodología y psicología experimental, ISSN-e 1576-8597, ISSN 0211-2159, Vol. 33, Nº 1, 2012, págs. 49-63
• Idioma: inglés
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Normas de edad de adquisición obtenidas con personas mayores: características y predicción del reconocimiento de palabras en la enfermedad de Alzheimer
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  • español

    La edad de adquisición es una de las variables más determinante del acceso léxico. También es la que mejor determina los procesos de pérdida de las palabras en los pacientes que han sufrido lesión cerebral, así como en la enfermedad de Alzheimer. Pero las escalas de edad de adquisición de que se dispone actualmente han sido todas construidas con jóvenes universitarios. Y obviamente las edades de adquisición para muchas palabras no son las mismas en los jóvenes actuales que en las personas mayores. El objetivo de este estudio fue elaborar normas de edad de adquisición para una muestra de 500 palabras con personas mayores de 60 años. Al comparar la capacidad de predicción de esta escala con otra elaborada con jóvenes de los resultados de un grupo pacientes de Alzheimer en una tarea de selección léxica se encontró que efectivamente esta escala predice mejor los datos. En consecuencia, en los estudios que se realicen con personas mayores debería de utilizar esta escala en vez de las obtenidas con jóvenes.

  • English

    Age of acquisition is possibly the single most potent variable affecting lexical access. It is also a variable that determines the retention or loss of words in patients who have suffered brain injury, and in patients with Alzheimer's disease. But the norms of age of acquisition currently available have largely been obtained from university students whereas the ages of acquisition for some words are very different for young people compared with the elderly. The aim of this study was to develop age of acquisition norms for a sample of 500 words with people over 60 years. When these norms were compared with others from young people in predicting the results of a group of Alzheimer patients in a lexical selection task we found that the elderly ratings made a better prediction of the data. We recommend that for studies using older participants appropriate norms should be used in place of those obtained from young adults.

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