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  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Gerontology

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  • Theory of Mind (ToM) is crucial for social cognition.
  • Cognitive test performance, including ToM, can be affected by demographics.
  • Normative data are needed for accurate clinical interpretation in specific populations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Establish normative data for the Comic-Strip Task (CST) in French-Quebec adults aged 50 and over.
  • Investigate the influence of age, education, and sex on CST performance in this demographic.
  • Provide clinicians with essential benchmarks for assessing social cognition.

Main Methods:

  • A sample of 281 healthy French-Quebec adults (50-90 years) completed the CST.
  • Statistical analyses examined associations between CST scores and demographic variables (age, education, sex).
  • Normative data were stratified by age groups (50-69 vs. ≥70) and education levels (≤12 vs. >12 years).

Main Results:

  • CST performance showed significant associations with both age and education level.
  • No significant association was found between CST performance and sex.
  • Normative data presented as percentile ranks, stratified by age and education.

Conclusions:

  • Age and education level are important factors influencing Theory of Mind (social cognition) as measured by the CST in older French-Quebec adults.
  • The established norms facilitate the identification of social cognition deficits in this population.
  • These findings support the clinical utility of the CST for assessing older adults in French-Quebec.