A Quick Test of Cognitive Speed

Wiig, Elisabeth H.; Nielsen, Niels Peter; Minthon, Lennart; Warkentin, Siegbert

doi:10.1037/t14970-000

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“…The AQT was used to provide a measure of cognitive abilities that often decline with age (or due to various types of dementia) (Wiig et al, 2002). The test is designed to measure verbal processing speed, automaticity of naming, working memory, and the ability to shift attention between dimensions of multidimensional visual stimuli.…”

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Auditory and cognitive factors underlying individual differences in aided speech-understanding among older adults

Humes¹,

Kidd²,

Lentz³

2013

Front. Syst. Neurosci.

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This study was designed to address individual differences in aided speech understanding among a relatively large group of older adults. The group of older adults consisted of 98 adults (50 female and 48 male) ranging in age from 60 to 86 (mean = 69.2). Hearing loss was typical for this age group and about 90% had not worn hearing aids. All subjects completed a battery of tests, including cognitive (6 measures), psychophysical (17 measures), and speech-understanding (9 measures), as well as the Speech, Spatial, and Qualities of Hearing (SSQ) self-report scale. Most of the speech-understanding measures made use of competing speech and the non-speech psychophysical measures were designed to tap phenomena thought to be relevant for the perception of speech in competing speech (e.g., stream segregation, modulation-detection interference). All measures of speech understanding were administered with spectral shaping applied to the speech stimuli to fully restore audibility through at least 4000 Hz. The measures used were demonstrated to be reliable in older adults and, when compared to a reference group of 28 young normal-hearing adults, age-group differences were observed on many of the measures. Principal-components factor analysis was applied successfully to reduce the number of independent and dependent (speech understanding) measures for a multiple-regression analysis. Doing so yielded one global cognitive-processing factor and five non-speech psychoacoustic factors (hearing loss, dichotic signal detection, multi-burst masking, stream segregation, and modulation detection) as potential predictors. To this set of six potential predictor variables were added subject age, Environmental Sound Identification (ESI), and performance on the text-recognition-threshold (TRT) task (a visual analog of interrupted speech recognition). These variables were used to successfully predict one global aided speech-understanding factor, accounting for about 60% of the variance.

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Auditory and cognitive factors underlying individual differences in aided speech-understanding among older adults

Humes¹,

Kidd²,

Lentz³

2013

Front. Syst. Neurosci.

137

145

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“…That is, rather than use the various predictor measures, including a measure of cognitive-linguistic speed of processing and a battery of working-memory measures, to predict speech-understanding in competition, perhaps speech-understanding measures, as well as several of the other non-cognitive predictor measures, could be used to predict cognitive function. There were three separate and weak-to-moderately correlated (0.19 < r < 0.44) measures of cognitive function included in the study by Humes et al (2013): (1) the Mini-Mental Status Exam (MMSE); (2) a computer-based battery of three common working-memory tests (Lewandowsky et al, 2010); and (3) A Quick Test of cognitive processing (AQT; Wiig et al 2002). The AQT was designed to tap several abilities including verbal-processing speed, automaticity of naming, working memory, and the ability to shift attention between dimensions of multidimensional visual stimuli.…”

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Sensory–Cognitive Interactions in Older Adults

Humes

Young

2016

Ear &Amp; Hearing

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Objectives To review evidence regarding sensory and cognitive interactions in older adults published since 2009, the approximate date of the most recent reviews on this topic. Design Following an electronic database search of articles published in English since 2009 on measures of hearing and cognition or vision and cognition in older adults, a total of 437 articles were identified. Screening by title and abstract for appropriateness of topic and for articles presenting original research in peer-reviewed journals reduced the final number of articles reviewed to 34. These articles were qualitatively evaluated and synthesized with the existing knowledge base. Results Additional evidence has been obtained since 2009 associating declines in vision, hearing, or both with declines in cognition among older adults. The observed sensory-cognitive associations are generally stronger when more than one sensory domain is measured and when the sensory measures involve more than simple threshold sensitivity. Conclusions Evidence continues to accumulate supporting a link between decline in sensory function and cognitive decline in older adults.

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“…The A Quick Test [21] contains 40 geometric figures [circles, squares, rectangles, or triangles] that are colored in red, black, yellow, or blue. The participant is instructed to quickly name first the color and then the form, in that order, of each stimulus.…”

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The Cognitive Functions in Adults with Chronic Pain: A Comparative Study

Nadar

Jasem

Manee

2016

Pain Research and Management

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Background. Several studies have reported an association between chronic pain and reduction of cognitive abilities of adults living in Western cultures. No literature could be found on the relationship between chronic pain and cognition among Middle Eastern adults. Objective. To compare four of the most commonly reported cognitive domains [memory, attention, processing speed, and executive functioning] among Middle Eastern adults with and without chronic pain. Methods. This matched group comparative study included 69 community residing and functionally independent Middle Eastern adults. Forty participants had chronic pain and 29 were pain-free. We administered five standardized cognitive assessments that are independent of culture and language to measure variable tasks of memory, attention, processing speed, and executive functioning. The study was conducted in a rehabilitation research setting with a controlled environment. Results. Evidence of decreased cognitive processing was found in patients with chronic pain. The chronic pain participants performed significantly worse than the pain-free participants on the cognitive measures of long-term memory, selective attention, processing speed, and executive functioning. Conclusion. The effect of Middle Eastern culture on the cognitive abilities of patients with chronic pain was negligible. Despite the wide variations between Eastern and Western cultures, the performance of our Middle Eastern participants in this study was consistent with performance of Western adults reported in previous studies.

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A Quick Test of Cognitive Speed

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Auditory and cognitive factors underlying individual differences in aided speech-understanding among older adults

Auditory and cognitive factors underlying individual differences in aided speech-understanding among older adults

Sensory–Cognitive Interactions in Older Adults

The Cognitive Functions in Adults with Chronic Pain: A Comparative Study

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