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An Experimental Paradigm for Measuring the Effects of Ageing on Sentence Processing
Published on: October 25, 2019
Effects of age, education and gender on verbal fluency
P S Mathuranath1, A George, P J Cherian
1Department of Neurology, Cognition and Behavioral Neurology Center, Sri Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, India. mathu@sctimst.ac.in
Abstract:
The objective was to study the effects of age, education and gender on verbal fluency in cognitively unimpaired, older individuals. The methods used were as follows: cognitively unimpaired elderly (55-84 years) subjects (n=153), were administered category (animal) (CF) and letter (/pa/) (LF) fluency tasks, in their native language of Malayalam. Results and conclusions were (1) Level of education, but not age or gender, significantly influence LF. (2) Level of education (directly) and in the elderly subjects, age (inversely) affect CF. (3) Age, but not education, has a differential effect on the tasks of verbal fluency, influencing CF more than LF.
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