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

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 w

SUBMITTER: Rofes A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7388773 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature