Age acquisition norms from elderly Spanish peoplecharacteristics and the prediction of word recognition performance in Alzheimer’s disease

  1. Fernando Cuetos 1
  2. Tamara Samartino 1
  3. Andrew W. Ellis 2
  1. 1 Universidad de Oviedo, Facultad de Psicología, Spain
  2. 2 University of York, U.K.
Revista:
Psicológica: Revista de metodología y psicología experimental

ISSN: 1576-8597

Año de publicación: 2012

Volumen: 33

Número: 1

Páginas: 49-63

Tipo: Artículo

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Resumen

La edad de adquisición es una de las variables más determinante del acceso léxico. También es la que mejor determina los procesos de pérdida de las palabras en los pacientes que han sufrido lesión cerebral, así como en la enfermedad de Alzheimer. Pero las escalas de edad de adquisición de que se dispone actualmente han sido todas construidas con jóvenes universitarios. Y obviamente las edades de adquisición para muchas palabras no son las mismas en los jóvenes actuales que en las personas mayores. El objetivo de este estudio fue elaborar normas de edad de adquisición para una muestra de 500 palabras con personas mayores de 60 años. Al comparar la capacidad de predicción de esta escala con otra elaborada con jóvenes de los resultados de un grupo pacientes de Alzheimer en una tarea de selección léxica se encontró que efectivamente esta escala predice mejor los datos. En consecuencia, en los estudios que se realicen con personas mayores debería de utilizar esta escala en vez de las obtenidas con jóvenes.

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