The relationship between Porteus maze and Binet test performance.

Purpose This study compared performance on three-word fluency measures among individuals with primary progressive aphasia (PPA) and primary progressive apraxia of speech (PPAOS), and examined the relationship between word fluency and other measures of language and speech. Method This study included 106 adults with PPA and 30 adults with PPAOS. PPA participants were divided into three clinical subgroups: semantic (svPPA), logopenic (lvPPA), and nonfluent/agrammatic with or without apraxia of speech (nfPPA). Category fluency, letter fluency, and action/verb fluency tasks were administered to all participants. Results The four clinical groups performed abnormally on the word fluency measures, although not to a degree that represented high sensitivity to their PPA or PPAOS diagnosis. All PPA subgroups produced fewer words compared to individuals with PPAOS on all word fluency measures. Moderate correlations were found between word fluency and aphasia severity and naming performance in some of the clinical groups. Conclusions Word fluency measures are often challenging for individuals with PPA and PPAOS, but they are not of equal difficulty, with letter fluency being the most difficult. Differences among word fluency tests also vary to some degree as a function of the clinical group in question, with least impairment in PPAOS. However, the findings of this study do not support statistically significant differences in word fluency task performance among the PPA subgroups. Correlations suggest that word fluency performance in PPA is at least partly related to aphasia severity.

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Normative implications of the relationship between reading vocabulary and Boston naming test performance

Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology ◽

10.1016/0887-6177(93)90053-4 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 8 (6) ◽

pp. 525-537 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

K Hawkins

Keyword(s):

Test Performance ◽

Boston Naming Test ◽

Reading Vocabulary ◽

The Relationship ◽

Naming Test ◽

Normative Implications

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The relationship of neuropsychological test performance with the PANSS in antipsychotic naïve, first-episode psychosis patients

Schizophrenia Research ◽

10.1016/j.scheres.2003.07.001 ◽

2003 ◽

Author(s):

K Good

Keyword(s):

Test Performance ◽

Neuropsychological Test ◽

First Episode Psychosis ◽

First Episode ◽

Episode Psychosis ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship

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The Relationship Between Lactate and Ventilatory Thresholds in Runners: Validity and Reliability of Exercise Test Performance Parameters

Frontiers in Physiology ◽

10.3389/fphys.2018.01320 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 9 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Víctor Cerezuela-Espejo ◽

Javier Courel-Ibáñez ◽

Ricardo Morán-Navarro ◽

Alejandro Martínez-Cava ◽

Jesús G. Pallarés

Keyword(s):

Exercise Test ◽

Test Performance ◽

Performance Parameters ◽

Validity And Reliability ◽

The Relationship

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Self-Reported Physical Activity and Treadmill Test Performance in Healthy Older Blacks and Whites

Journal of Aging and Physical Activity ◽

10.1123/japa.2.1.14 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 14-24 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Steven P. Singleton ◽

James T. Fitzgerald ◽

Anne Victoria Neale

Keyword(s):

Physical Activity ◽

Test Performance ◽

Activity Levels ◽

Treadmill Test ◽

Exercise Habits ◽

Black And White ◽

Blacks And Whites ◽

Fitness And Health ◽

The Relationship ◽

White Adults

This study was conducted to determine the exercise habits and fitness status of healthy older black and white adults, ages 50 to 80 years. The 384 subjects were enrolled in a health promotion project conducted by a midwestern medical school. Self-reported exercise levels were higher for men than for women and were higher for whites compared with blacks. Age had the greatest impact on treadmill performance for both sexes. Activity levels declined with age for men but not for women. Self-reported exercise levels were highly predictive of fitness status for men but not for women. The relationship in older adults between activity levels and both measured fitness and health status needs further investigation.

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EYE GAZE AND PRODUCTION ACCURACY PREDICT ENGLISH L2 SPEAKERS’ MORPHOSYNTACTIC LEARNING

Studies in Second Language Acquisition ◽

10.1017/s0272263116000395 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 39 (4) ◽

pp. 851-868 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Kim McDonough ◽

Pavel Trofimovich ◽

Phung Dao ◽

Alexandre Dion

Keyword(s):

Second Language ◽

Test Performance ◽

Eye Gaze ◽

Learning Activities ◽

Learning Activity ◽

Pattern Learning ◽

Gaze Behavior ◽

Target Pattern ◽

English Students ◽

The Relationship

This study investigated the relationship between second language (L2) speakers’ success in learning a new morphosyntactic pattern and characteristics of one-on-one learning activities, including opportunities to comprehend and produce the target pattern, receive feedback from an interlocutor, and attend to the meaning of the pattern through self- and interlocutor-initiated eye-gaze behaviors. L2 English students (N = 48) were exposed to the transitive construction in Esperanto (e.g., filino mordas pomon [SVO] or pomon mordas filino [OVS] “girl bites apple”) through comprehension and production activities with an interlocutor, receiving feedback in the form of recasts for their Esperanto errors. The L2 speakers’ interpretation and production of Esperanto transitives were then tested using known and novel lexical items. The results indicated that OVS test performance was predicted by the duration of self-initiated eye gaze to images illustrating the OVS pattern during the comprehension learning activity and by accurate production of OVS sentences during the production learning activity. The findings suggest important roles for eye-gaze behavior and production opportunities in L2 pattern learning.

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A Simplified Paired-Associate Test for Elderly Hospital Patients

The British Journal of Psychiatry ◽

10.1192/bjp.110.464.80 ◽

1964 ◽

Vol 110 (464) ◽

pp. 80-83 ◽

Cited By ~ 22

Author(s):

Bernard Isaacs ◽

Frank A. Walkey

Keyword(s):

Test Performance ◽

Paired Associate ◽

Verbal Learning ◽

Objective Measure ◽

The Elderly ◽

Old People ◽

Mental Impairment ◽

Hospital Patients ◽

Learning Test ◽

The Relationship

In studies of the incidence and prognosis of disease in the elderly it is valuable to have an objective measure of the patient's mental state. In a previous paper (Isaacs, 1962) a paired-associate verbal learning test devised by Inglis (1959) was applied to a group of 50 normal and 100 hospitalized old people, and was found to give useful information on the relationship between test performance and such factors as incontinence of urine and prognosis for rehabilitation. In the present study a simplified version of this test was performed on a larger number of elderly hospital patients. The test proved valuable in determining the characteristics of patients with varying degrees of mental impairment.

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