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  • Linguistics
  • Neurology
  • Psychology

Background:

  • Cross-linguistic and cultural factors significantly influence cognitive tasks, including word retrieval.
  • Aphasia, a language disorder post-brain injury, affects word retrieval abilities.
  • Cultural familiarity with specific concepts, like zodiac animals in East Asia, may impact performance on verbal fluency tasks.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the impact of cross-linguistic and cultural differences on animal fluency tasks.
  • To compare word retrieval patterns between Korean- and English-speaking individuals with aphasia (PWA) and neurologically intact older adults (OAs).
  • To examine the influence of culturally familiar zodiac animals on verbal fluency.

Main Methods:

  • Sixty-seven PWA and 30 OAs participated, divided into Korean- and English-speaking groups.
  • Participants completed an animal fluency task.
  • Analyses included total correct responses, culturally specific (zodiac) animal responses, and item-level comparisons.

Main Results:

  • Korean speakers (with and without aphasia) produced a higher proportion of zodiac animals than English speakers.
  • English speakers exhibited greater semantic diversity in their animal responses compared to Korean speakers.
  • Both PWA and OA groups showed language- and culture-dependent patterns in zodiac animal production.

Conclusions:

  • Language and cultural background significantly affect animal fluency performance in both individuals with aphasia and healthy older adults.
  • Findings underscore the importance of considering cultural and linguistic diversity in aphasia assessments.
  • Culturally salient items, such as zodiac animals, can reveal differential patterns in word retrieval across language groups.