Language of administration and neuropsychological test performance in neurologically intact Hispanic American bilingual adults
Language of administration and neuropsychological test performance in neurologically intact Hispanic American bilingual adults
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DOI：
10.1016/j.acn.2007.08.003
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发表时间：
2007-11-01
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2.6
通讯作者：
Sandoval, Omar
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作者：
Gasquoine, Philip Gerard;Croyle, Kristin L.;Sandoval, Omar
这项研究比较了西班牙裔美国双语成年人在西班牙语和英语两种语言版本的神经心理测试中的表现。语言成就测试分数被用来将36名来自德克萨斯州南部的双语、神经功能完好的拉美裔美国人分成以西班牙语为主、平衡的和以英语为主的双语组。他们接受了Bateria Neuropsicology的八个分测验和WAIS-III的矩阵推理分测验的西班牙语和英语测试。一半的参与者首先接受了西班牙语测试。平衡的双语者在西班牙语和英语管理部门之间的测试分数没有显著差异。与视觉感知权重相比，西班牙语和/或英语占主导地位的双语者在具有更高语言权重的测试中表现出显著的管理语言影响(Woodcock-Munoz语言调查-修订、字母流利性、故事记忆和Stroop颜色和单词测试)。视觉-知觉权重较高的测试(矩阵推理、图形记忆、威斯康星卡片分类测试和空间广度)的成绩不受管理语言的显著影响，西班牙语/加州语言学习测试和数字广度的成绩也没有显著影响。在比较每种语言的假阳性率时遇到了一个问题，因为西班牙语的标准低于英语的标准，导致所有双语组的英语的假阳性率要高得多。使用比较标准(图片词汇得分)降低了两种语言的假阳性率，但英语的假阳性率较高。(C)2007年国家神经心理学学会。爱思唯尔有限公司出版。保留所有权利。
This study compared the performance of Hispanic American bilingual adults on Spanish and English language versions of a neuropsychological test battery. Language achievement test scores were used to divide 36 bilingual, neurologically intact, Hispanic Americans from south Texas into Spanish-dominant, balanced, and English-dominant bilingual groups. They were administered the eight subtests of the Bateria Neuropsicologica and the Matrix Reasoning subtest of the WAIS-III in Spanish and English. Half the participants were tested in Spanish first. Balanced bilinguals showed no significant differences in test scores between Spanish and English language administrations. Spanish and/or English dominant bilinguals showed significant effects of language of administration on tests with higher language compared to visual perceptual weighting (Woodcock-Munoz Language Survey-Revised, Letter Fluency, Story Memory, and Stroop Color and Word Test). Scores on tests with higher visual-perceptual weighting (Matrix Reasoning, Figure Memory, Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, and Spatial Span), were not significantly affected by language of administration, nor were scores on the Spanish/California Verbal Learning Test, and Digit Span. A problem was encountered in comparing false positive rates in each language, as Spanish norms fell below English norms, resulting in a much higher false positive rate in English across all bilingual groupings. Use of a comparison standard (picture vocabulary score) reduced false positive rates in both languages, but the higher false positive rate in English persisted. (C) 2007 National Academy of Neuropsychology. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.