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BL971747  \nInhibitory Control during Sentence Comprehension in Individuals with Dementia of the Alzheimer Type  \nMARK E. FAUST  \nWheeler Cognitive Neuropsychology Lab, Good Samaritan Hospital, Portland, Oregon DAVID A. BALOTA AND JANET M. DUCHEK  \nWashington University  \nMORTON ANN GERNSBACHER  \nUniversity of Wisconsin  \nAND  \nSTAN SMITH  \nWheeler Cognitive Neuropsychology Lab, Good Samaritan Hospital, Portland, Oregon  \nIn two experiments we investigated the extent to which individuals with dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT) manage the activation of contextually appropriate and inappropriate meanings of ambiguous words during sentence comprehension. DAT individuals and healthy older individuals read sentences that ended in ambiguous words and then determined if a test word fit the overall meaning of the sentence. Analysis of response latencies indicated that DAT individuals were less efficient than healthy older individuals at suppressing inappropriate meanings of ambiguous  \nThe initial portion of the research reported in this article was supported by a National Institute on Aging grant (AG08820) to Stan Smith, by an Alzheimer’s Disease Center of Oregon grant to Mark Faust and Stan Smith, and by an endowment to the Wheeler Cognitive Neuropsychology Laboratory by Coleman and Cornelia Wheeler. The final portion of the research and the manuscript were completed while Dr. Faust was a Research Fellow at the Washington University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (P50 AG05681) . During this period Dr. Faust was supported by Grants R01 AG10193 and P01 AG03991 from the National Institute on Aging to Dr. David Balota and by ADRC Gift funds. The authors thank Lori Kennedy and Kris Kuhlemeier for their help in testing the participants. The authors also thank Dr. Leonard Berg and Dr. John Morris and the physicians associated with Washington University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center for providing their time and expertise in diagnosing individuals with DAT.  \nAddress reprint requests to Mark Faust, at the Department of Psychology, University of South Alabama, Life Sciences Building, Room 320, Mobile, AL, 36688-0002 . E-mail: mfaust-@[jaguar1.usouthal.edu](jaguar1.usouthal.edu).  \n225  \n0093-934X/97 $25.00 Copyright 􀃣 1997 by Academic Press All rights of reproduction in any form reserved.  \n226 FAUST ET AL.  \nwords not implied by sentence context, but enhanced appropriate meanings to the same extent, if not more, than healthy older adults. DAT individuals were also more likely to allow inappropriate information to actually drive responses (i.e., increased intrusion errors) . Overall, the results are consistent with a growing number of studies demonstrating impairments in inhibitory control, with relative preservation offacilitatory processes, in DAT. 􀃣 1997 Academic Press  \nA decline in the ability of individuals with senile dementia ofthe Alzheimer type (DAT) to comprehend written and spoken language is one of several language deficits documented in studies of language ability (e.g., Murdoch, Chenery, Wilks, & Boyle, 1987; Appell, Kertesz, & Fisman, 1982) . While word naming abilities are relatively well preserved during the early stages of DAT, reading comprehension declines with dementia severity (Cummings, Houlihan, & Hill, 1986) . The decline of language comprehension in DAT may be, in part, due to a disruption of retrieval from semantic memory (e.g., Nebes, Boller, & Holland, 1986; Nebes, Brady, & Huff, 1989) or to a degradation of the representations of concepts and words in semantic memory (e.g., Martin & Fedio, 1983; Chertkow, Bub, & Seidenberg, 1989; Gewirth & Shindler, 1984; Flicker, Ferris, Crook, & Bartus, 1987), or possibly, both (seeNebes, 1989, fora recent review). However, evidence isaccumulating to suggest that individuals in the early stages of DAT also suffer from a loss in the efficiency of cognitive mechanisms responsible for the management of the activation of or ","cbCair2k3bfwu3dt","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCair2k3bfwu3dt","pdf",464130,29,"English","# Inhibitory Control during Sentence Comprehension\n## Background: Language decline and semantic processing in DAT\n## Inhibitory and facilitatory mechanisms in comprehension models\n## Study design and findings on suppression and intrusion errors","[{\"question\":\"What did the experiments test in DAT sentence comprehension?\",\"answer\":\"The study tested the extent to which DAT individuals manage activation of contextually appropriate versus inappropriate meanings of ambiguous words during sentence comprehension.\"},{\"question\":\"How did DAT participants perform compared with healthy older adults on suppression?\",\"answer\":\"DAT participants were less efficient than healthy older adults at suppressing inappropriate meanings of ambiguous words, as indicated by response latencies.\"},{\"question\":\"Were facilitatory processes also impaired in DAT?\",\"answer\":\"Appropriate meanings were enhanced to the same extent, if not more, than in healthy older adults, suggesting relative preservation of facilitatory processes despite inhibitory deficits.\"}]","Inhibitory Control during Sentence Comprehension in Individuals with Dementia of the Alzheimer Type | PDF",73]