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KMID : 0375920040220010039
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Journal of Rehabilitation Science
2004 Volume.22 No. 1 p.39 ~ p.53
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A Study of Language Processing Characteristics in Alzheimer’s Disease Patients
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Byun Sun-Kyung
Jeong Ok-Ran
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Abstract
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The goal of this paper was to address 2 issues relevant to the semantic impairment in Alzheimer’s disease: (1) stimulus associative effects (2) semantic category effects (contrasting living with non-living categories). The subjects of this study were divided into 3 groups based on K-Mini Mental state Examination (K-MMSE) scale: probable AD, mild AD, and moderate AD group. Twenty-seven patients with AD were given a semantic category task. The response were analyzed by one-way ANOVA to determine any significant difference among 3 groups.
The result of this study revealed the following findings: (1) semantic category effect didn’t a difference influence semantic association, (2) The AD group showed a significant on semantic association, (3) There was a significant correlation between the AD group and semantic association. In sum, the present results indicated that semantic impairment in AD involved a progressive deterioration of lexical-semantic representation.
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KEYWORD
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Alzheimer’s disease , lexical-semantic, semantic - categorization, associative relatedness
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