Word association norms in Mexican older adults
Por:
Arias-Trejo, Natalia, Bel-Enguix, Gemma, Barron-Martinez, Julia B., Minto-Garcia, Aline, Arias-Carrion, Oscar, Gonzalez-Gonzalez, Martha M.
Publicada:
31 dic 2022
Resumen:
Aging involves a variety of cognitive and language changes. Word
association norms (WANs), which describe the first word people say or
write after reading or hearing a stimulus word, reflect the organization
of semantic knowledge. The aim of this study was to create a WAN corpus
for Mexican older adults, with 114 participants responding to 117 nouns.
The results of eight measures of word-word relationships showed that
participants generated an average of 38.14 different response words for
each stimulus word. Of these responses, 41.88% were of high associative
strength and 20.70% were idiosyncratic, demonstrating the uniqueness of
responses of older adults. In addition, we compared their responses to a
corpus for younger adults (Barron-Martinez & Arias-Trejo, 2014). A
qualitative analysis categorizing the responses into syntagmatic and
paradigmatic types showed that the older group tended to respond with
words from a different grammatical class. Responses of the younger
adults were also more cohesive and less varied than those of the older
group. This corpus for older adults is an essential resource for
evaluating age-related changes in semantic memory, and it provides a
point of comparison for responses from people with neurodegenerative
diseases.
Filiaciones:
Arias-Trejo, Natalia:
Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
Bel-Enguix, Gemma:
Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
Barron-Martinez, Julia B.:
Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
Minto-Garcia, Aline:
Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
Arias-Carrion, Oscar:
Hosp Gen Dr Manuel Gea Gonzalez, Mexico City, Mexico
Gonzalez-Gonzalez, Martha M.:
Inst Nacl Neurol & Neurocirugia Manuel Velasco Su, Mexico City, Mexico
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