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  • Neuropsychology
  • Gerontology

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  • Everyday action knowledge and its relation to daily functioning are crucial for independence.
  • Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease dementia (PDD) significantly impact cognitive abilities, including those related to action understanding.
  • Assessing the semantic aspects of everyday actions is vital for understanding functional deficits in neurodegenerative diseases.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate tests of everyday action semantics.
  • To investigate the relationship between action semantic knowledge and everyday functional performance in individuals with AD and PDD.
  • To compare action semantic abilities between healthy adults, and individuals with AD and PDD.

Main Methods:

  • Developed three action semantic tests: Probe Test, Picture Sequencing Test, and Script Test.
  • Administered tests to healthy adults (n=53), individuals with AD (n=17), and individuals with PDD (n=20).
  • Utilized cognitive tests, informant reports, and the Naturalistic Action Test (NAT) to assess everyday functioning.

Main Results:

  • Both AD and PDD groups performed worse than healthy controls on all action semantic tasks.
  • AD participants generated fewer correct steps than PDD participants on the Script Test.
  • Performance on action semantic tests correlated with NAT omission errors; the Sequencing Test predicted omissions, commissions, and informant-reported functioning.

Conclusions:

  • Action semantic knowledge is impaired in both AD and PDD and is associated with errors in everyday task execution.
  • The ability to sequence everyday actions accurately is linked to multiple facets of daily function.
  • Picture sequencing tasks offer a potentially simple method for assessing crucial aspects of everyday functional abilities.