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  • Title: The spectrum of category effects in object and action knowledge in dementia of the Alzheimer's type.
    Author: Fung TD, Chertkow H, Murtha S, Whatmough C, Péloquin L, Whitehead V, Templeman FD.
    Journal: Neuropsychology; 2001 Jul; 15(3):371-9. PubMed ID: 11499992.
    Abstract:
    The validity and origin of category effects in the anomia demonstrated by individuals with dementia of the Alzheimer's type (DAT) remains controversial. Twenty DAT subjects were tested with picture naming and semantic association judgment tests. Picture and word stimuli were drawn from biological, nonbiological, and actions-verbs categories, all of equal difficulty and previously normed on elderly controls. DAT subjects made significantly more naming and semantic judgment errors in the biological category than in the nonbiological category. They were relatively more accurate in naming and making judgments for actions-verbs when presented as words or as 5-s animations. When line drawings of actions were shown for naming, performance deteriorated significantly. Converging results from these 2 tasks provide strong evidence for a semantic memory impairment preferentially affecting biological items to a greater extent than nonbiological items or action verbs in DAT.
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