Rochon E, Waters G S, Caplan D
School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.
Brain Lang. 1994 Feb;46(2):329-49. doi: 10.1006/brln.1994.1018.
Twenty-three early-stage dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT) patients and twenty-three control subjects were tested on a sentence-picture matching test containing nine different sentence types representing different levels of syntactic complexity. Subjects chose between drawings depicting a target sentence and a syntactic foil. Results indicated that DAT patients differed from control subjects on four of the nine sentence types. Performance of the patients was not poorer for sentences that were syntactically more complex, but was poorer for sentences that had two propositions as compared to one. Results are discussed in terms of a post-interpretative processing impairment in sentence comprehension in DAT.
23名早期阿尔茨海默病型痴呆（DAT）患者和23名对照受试者接受了一项句子-图片匹配测试，该测试包含9种不同类型的句子，代表不同程度的句法复杂性。受试者在描绘目标句子的图画和句法干扰项之间进行选择。结果表明，在9种句子类型中的4种上，DAT患者与对照受试者存在差异。患者对于句法更复杂的句子表现并不更差，但与包含一个命题的句子相比，对于包含两个命题的句子表现更差。根据DAT患者句子理解中解释后加工损伤对结果进行了讨论。
