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Animal Naming Performance in Korean Elderly: Effects of age, education, and gender, and Typicality

  • Kim, Jung-Wan (Department of Speech and Language Pathology Daegu University) ;
  • Kim, Hyang-Hee (Graduate Program in Speech and Language Pathology & Department and Research Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine Yonsei University College of Medicine)
  • Received : 2012.04.07
  • Accepted : 2012.08.28
  • Published : 2012.09.28
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Abstract

The animal naming test (ANT) is known to be influenced not only by age, gender, and education but only by ethnicity, culture, and language. Thus, population-specific norm considering these variables needs to be developed for Korean-speaking elderly. We evaluated 185 healthy elderly people with five measures. Education was the single statistically independent correlate of the total number of words ($R^2$ = .312, p = .038). After adjusting for education, there was slightly significant negative correlation (r = -.215, p = .049) between age and total number of words. Mean number of words produced was $13.71{\pm}3.09$. The production frequency was negatively correlated with the typicality rating (r = -0.41, p < .05). The concrete and exact scoring rule could be set up in the comparison of naming performance between a normal and patient with neuro-linguistic disorder and its data could be utilized in a differential diagnosis for patients with neurological disorders.

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