Animal Naming Performance in Korean Elderly: Effects of age, education, and gender, and Typicality
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONTENTS / INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONTENTS, (P)1738-6764; (E)2093-7504
2012, v.8 no.3, pp.26-33
https://doi.org/10.5392/ijoc.2012.8.3.026
Kim, Jung-Wan
Kim, Hyang-Hee
Kim,,
J.
, &
Kim,,
H.
(2012). Animal Naming Performance in Korean Elderly: Effects of age, education, and gender, and Typicality. , 8(3), 26-33, https://doi.org/10.5392/ijoc.2012.8.3.026
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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Semantic Verbal Fluency,
Animal Naming,
Korean Elderly,
Typicality
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