Effect of age, education, and bilingualism on confrontation naming in older illiterate and low educated populations.

Effect of age, education, and bilingualism on confrontation naming in older illiterate and low educated populations. Behav Neurol. 2013 Sep 12; Authors: Ashaie S, Obler L Abstract We investigated the effects of age as well as the linked factors of education and bilingualism on confrontation naming in rural Kashmir by creating a culturally appropriate naming test with pictures of 60 objects. We recruited 48 cognitively normal participants whose ages ranged from 18-28 and 60-85. Participants in our study were illiterate monolinguals (N=18) and educated Kashmiri-Urdu bilinguals (N=30). Hierarchical Multiple Regression revealed younger adults performed better than older adults (p<0.01) and the age effect was quadratic (age<formula>^{2}</formula>). It also showed Age X Education and Age X L2 Speaking interactions predicting naming performance. The Age X Education interaction indicated that the advantages of greater education increased with advancing age. Since education is in the second language (L2) in our population, this finding is no doubt linked to the Age X L2 Speaking interaction that suggests that L2 speaking proficiency contributed more to first language (L1) naming with advancing age. PMID: 24036970 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Behavioural Neurology - Category: Neurology Authors: Tags: Behav Neurol Source Type: research