Characteristics of number transcoding errors of Chinese- versus English-speaking Alzheimer's disease patients.
Number processing disorder is an acquired deficit in mathematical skills commonly observed in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), usually as a consequence of neurological dysfunction. Common impairments include syntactic errors (800012 instead of 8012) and intrusion errors (8 thousand and 12 instead of eight...
| Publicado en: | Neurocase (Taylor & Francis Ltd) Vol. 22; no. 5; pp. 469 - 472 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=119595240&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 119595240 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 13554794 1II8 jtl: Neurocase (Taylor & Francis Ltd) issn: 13554794 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Oct2016 vid: 22 iid: 5 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania artinfo: ui: 119595240 119595240 NLM27682222 119595240 10.1080/13554794.2016.1237656 NLM27682222 119595240 ppf: 469 ppct: 3 formats: tig: atl: Characteristics of number transcoding errors of Chinese- versus English-speaking Alzheimer's disease patients. aug: au: Ting, Simon Kang Seng Chia, Pei Shi Kwek, Kevin Tan, Wilnard Hameed, Shahul affil: Department of Neurology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore sug: subj: Mathematics Language Alzheimer's Disease Complications Cognition Disorders Etiology Problem Solving Male Neuropsychological Tests Aged, 80 and Over Asians Chi Square Test Female Psychological Tests Alzheimer's Disease Physiopathology Aged Human Aged, 80 & over Aged: 65+ years Male Female ab: Number processing disorder is an acquired deficit in mathematical skills commonly observed in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), usually as a consequence of neurological dysfunction. Common impairments include syntactic errors (800012 instead of 8012) and intrusion errors (8 thousand and 12 instead of eight thousand and twelve) in number transcoding tasks. This study aimed to understand the characterization of AD-related number processing disorder within an alphabetic language (English) and ideographical language (Chinese), and to investigate the differences between alphabetic and ideographic language processing. Chinese-speaking AD patients were hypothesized to make significantly more intrusion errors than English-speaking ones, due to the ideographical nature of both Chinese characters and Arabic numbers. A simplified number transcoding test derived from EC301 battery was administered to AD patients. Chinese-speaking AD patients made significantly more intrusion errors (p = 0.001) than English speakers. This demonstrates that number processing in an alphabetic language such as English does not function in the same manner as in Chinese. The impaired inhibition capability likely contributes to such observations due to its competitive lexical representation in brain for Chinese speakers. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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